Services

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• Adoption and fostering
  • Adoption
    • Access to files (subject access request)
    • Adoption and Children Act 2002 
    • Close relatives searching for an adopted person
    • Contact issues: veto and expression of wish
    • Financial support for adopters
    • Non-Agency Adoptions (partner, step-parent & adoption by others)
  • Fostering
• Children in our care
  • Early Help
  • Looking after children and young people
  • Private fostering
  • Safeguarding and reviewing
    • Participation of children & young people
    • The Children’s Society
    • The Leaving Care Service
  • Social care for children
    • Role of the corporate parent
    • Social worker checks
  • Useful information for families
• Contact us
  • Freedom of information
  • Your feedback 
• Make a comment or complaint
  • Complaint form – child or young person
  • Complaint form – parent or carer
• Talk to us about a child or young person
  • Safeguarding children
  • Talk to us about a child or young person – practitioners
  • Talk to us about a child or young person – public
• Working with us
  • Information for professionals
  • Social care recruitment
  • Supplier / procurement T&C’s
  • Training
• Youth information
  • Care leavers
    • Care Leavers: introduction and testimonies
    • Comments, complaints and compliments
    • Financial offer
    • Key contacts for the Leaving Care Service
    • Next steps and turning 21
    • Participation (Your Voice) 
    • Turning 25: ‘always here’ 
    • Your Leaving Care Service
    • Your Pathway Plan
    • Your right to be heard and taken seriously
    • Youth justice services, probation and prison
  • Employment, education and training
    • Apprenticeships, training and skills for work
    • Employment
    • Getting advice
    • Looking for a job?
    • Need a CV?
    • Ways of studying
    • Work and disabled people
    • Your options
  • Health and relationships
    • Gay or straight?
    • Illegal drugs
    • Sexual health, condoms and contraception
  • Housing and your rights
  • Keeping safe online
  • Leisure and community
  • Money and benefits
  • Need to talk to someone?
  • Supporting our care leavers
  • Travel and transport
  • Youth offending
    • Interventions
    • Prevention
    • Victims support and restorative justice
• Children social care privacy notice
• Customer care team privacy notice
• Fostering privacy notice
• Information governance team
• Multi-agency risk assessment conference (MARAC)
• Prevention and early help

• Training
• Veto and expression of wish
• Education
• Justice services
• Probation
• Prison
• Relationships
• Offending
• Adopted person (close relatives)
• Benefits
• Feedback
• Contraception