Get your questions answered by a member of our friendly team
Considering adoption? Join one of our events today:
You can talk to adoption social workers and families who’ve adopted, watch a presentation, find out more about the application process, and get your questions answered.
If you live in Devon, Plymouth, Somerset or Torbay and are thinking about adopting you can book a place at one of our events:
Partner adoption is a way in which you can become the legal parent of your partner’s child or children from previous marriage or relationship. Currently Adopt South West is currently reviewing its practice and process about Non-Agency/Partner Adoption so there will be a change in process. Please continue to check our website for further details.
We provide a safe, supportive space for birth parents to meet others with a shared experience of loss, to talk about difficult feelings, and to be supported in moving forward.
For adoptive families, we provide events:
Support activities – all (our main web page of all support events, and we sub-categorise as below)
Due to snow and hazardous conditions in the local area, we have cancelled this support group. Please email Karen Pomfret, Family Practitioner at Adopt South [...]
Available to parents whose child attends a school in the Devon County Council local council area Virtual drop-in sessions with an Education Psychologist, supported by [...]
Available to parents whose child attends a school in the Devon County Council local council area Our virtual drop-in sessions with an Education Psychologist, supported [...]
Available to parents whose child attends a school in the Devon County Council local council area Virtual drop-in sessions with an Education Psychologist, supported by [...]
The Post-Grad Group is open to any adoptive parents, whether you have completed a Therapeutic Parenting Course or not, who would simply like to access [...]
Bay Deane, psychotherapist and adoptive parent, facilitates these monthly evening online support sessions for adopters and graduates of the therapeutic parenting course. Why not come [...]
We'd love for you to join us for a Christmas party in Somerset! We'll provide a variety of Christmas-themed crafting activities including, biscuit decorating, face painting, [...]
Holiday event for Adopt South West adoptive families Kim from Adopt South West invite young adopted people, secondary school age, to an Outdoors Activity Centre [...]