Adopting

Contact Details and Useful Names and Addresses

Information about Adoption in Solihull.

Solihull's Adoption Agency

Solihull Council is an approved Adoption Agency. The work of all Adoption Agencies is regulated by the Adoption Agency Regulations 1983.

The Placements Team is responsible for recruiting, preparing and supporting prospective adopters and long-term foster carers to meet the needs of children who cannot be looked after by their own family.

Adoption and Placements Team Education and Children's Services Jubilee House 655 Auckland Drive Smith's Wood Solihull B36 0SN

Telephone: 0121 749 8100 or 0800 073 0769, e-mail: ssplace@solihull.gov.uk

We are members of:

• The West Midlands Consortium of Adoption Agencies
• The West Midlands Post Adoption Service
• The British Association for Adoption and Fostering

There are networks of adoption agencies, locally and nationally, who seek to link children with appropriate families.

Useful Names and Addresses

BAAF, Birmingham Office, Dolphin House, 54 Coventry Road, Birmingham, B10 0RX,
Tel: 0191 261 6600
Advice Line: 0870 241 0663 (9am-1pm)
E-mail: mail@baaf.org.uk
Web address: www.baaf.org.uk/

Adoption UK
Adoption UK Manor Farm
Appletree Road Chipping Warden Oxfordshire OX17 ILH
Tel: 01295 660121
Helpline: 0870 7700 450
E-mail: admin@adoptionuk.org.uk
web address: www.adoptionuk.org.uk

WMPAS
West Midlands Post Adoption Centre
4th Floor Smithfield House Digbeth Birmingham B5 6BS
Tel: 0121 666 6014
Fax: 0121 666 6334

National Adoption Standards

Timescales

We make every effort to comply with timescales in the National Adoption Standards. Sometimes organisational pressure can cause some delay and you will be informed if this is an issue.

It is also important to recognise that some individuals and families need to have more time for reflection. We will always go at the pace you need.

1. We should respond (in writing) to your enquiry within five working days.
2. The follow up interview and information giving should be within two months.
3. When the agency decided to proceed with an application, there should be an Adoption Agency decision, following the Home Study, within six months.

Note:

For operational reasons, we are only able to arrange a maximum of three sets of Preparation Groups a year. Therefore it may not be possible to proceed to Home Study within two months of your first interview. You will usually be invited to the next available groups and, if there is particular urgency, it may be possible for arrangements to be made for you to attend Preparation Groups in a neighbouring authority.

Statement of Purpose

Details of the arrangements for adoption in Solihull and National Standards and Guidelines are available in Solihull's Statement of Purpose.

Suggested Reading

• Adopters on Adoption - David Howe
• Adopting a Child - Chennells and Hammond
• Talking about Adoption - Chennells and Hammond
• Real Parents, Real Children - Van Gulden and Barteli-Rabb

All available from British Association for Adoption and Fostering.

Contact Details

Adoption Team
Jubilee House
655 Auckland Drive
Smith's Wood Solihull
B36 0SN

Telephone: 0800 073 0769

Email: ssplace@solihull.gov.uk

For general information on Children and Family Services, please email childrensservices@solihull.gov.uk