fostering & adoption
Fostering and adoption offer children the chance for a stable home life and nurturing in a safe family environment that is free from neglect and abuse.
Foster care is needed when children and young people, through no fault of their own, cannot live with their own parents or families. Foster carers can provide short or long term care.
Adoption is the legal process which permanently transfers all legal rights and responsibilities of being a parent from a child’s birth parents to the adoptive parents.
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To report suspected child abuse or neglect, call the DoCS Helpline on 132 111 (24 hours/7 days)