Children and young people

Medway Council offers:

• adoption counselling for birth parents;
• mediation in contact arrangements;
• consultation and counselling for grandparents or other birth relatives;
• support for adoptive parents and their children;
• help for adults who were adopted and now want to find out about their origins;
• advice and counselling on adoption for expectant mothers (on request);
• advice for step-families considering adoption;
• friends and family assessments for people considering offering a permanent home to a child known to them;
• information on adopting children from other countries;
• telephone and face-to-face advice from trained Post-Adoption Centre counsellors with:
  
  
  • monthly surgeries in Chatham for adoptive families, birth parents and adult adoptees;
  • a confidential advice line on which surgery appointments can be made.

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