Post Adoption Support Queensland

Adoption is a way to provide a permanent family for children who, for various reasons, cannot live with their birth family. The legal adoption process establishes a permanent parent-child relationship between a child and his or her adoptive parents. Adoption also removes the legal relationship between the child and his or her birth parents and extended family. Adoption Services is responsible for providing services in Queensland for: parents considering adoption for their children children requiring adoptive placements people seeking to adopt children people seeking information or to lodge a contact statement in relation to a past adoption. Adoption Services provides services in accordance with the requirements of the Adoption Act 2009 (PDF) and the Adoption Regulation 2009 (PDF). It is unlawful to attempt to privately arrange an adoption in Queensland.