Adoption Services
The Office of Adoption Services Victoria at 570 Bourke St Melbourne is closed until further notice.
Our Case Managers can still be contacted by email.
For enquiries about:
- adoption records, please email AdoptionRecords@justice.vic.gov.au (External link)
- adopting a child, please email AdoptionsVic@justice.vic.gov.au (External link)
For all other enquires, please email details to adoption@justice.vic.gov.au (External link) and your email will be forwarded to the relevant team for action.
On 1 July 2019, delivery of Adoption Services transferred from the Department of Health and Human Service to the Department of Justice and Community Safety.
Adoption Services includes local adoption, inter-country adoption and information about past adoptions.
Local adoption services are now delivered directly by Adoption Victoria within the Department of Justice and Community Safety, and indirectly by four community agencies:
- Anglicare
- CatholicCare
- Uniting
- Children and Families Services.
All local adoption service providers provide counselling of parentsconsidering placing a child for adoption, and assessment of people interested in local adoption.
Adoption Victoria arranges:
Adoption Information Services provides support to:
Contact community agencies
Four agencies provide local adoption services in Victoria: