Support to Birth Families Service in Somerset

The overall objective of this service is to offer information about adoption, counselling and support and advice to all birth parents or relatives of children where adoption is the plan for the child or the child has already been adopted. The Department for Education (DfE) Statutory Guidance on Adoption, July 2014 sets outs the LA's duty to provide adoption support to the birth parents and relatives of adopted children. The agency should offer the parents the services of an independent support worker - someone who...