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Swindon Borough CounCil
Adoption
Adoption is a legal process that transfers parental responsibility from a child’s birth
parents to adoptive parents with the child becoming a full member of the adoptive
family.Adoption is a way of providing a permanent home for a child that cannot be
brought up in his/ her birth family.
To be able to adopt, there are a number
of points to comply with; applicants
must be at least 21 years of age in
order to be able to adopt, single
people and couples can apply
to adopt, and couples do not
have to be married or in
civil partnerships as it is the
stability of relationships
that matters not legal
status.There is no upper
age limit but children
needing adoption need
parent/parents who can
be a support to them
well beyond their teens
and both those who have
no children and those
who have birth children
can adopt.