Adoption reform brings extra help
Source: Queensland. Minister for Child Safety and Minister for Sport. Media Release
"People affected by adoption will be able to get free telephone and face-to-face advice from government-funded counsellors from October 1 as part of the Bligh Government’s adoption laws reforms. Child Safety Minister Phil Reeves said the new adoption support service would have a free call hotline, local counsellors in the South-East and regional Queensland as well as training in adoption issues for health professionals and other counsellors. “Adoption is a complex and sensitive matter that affects many people - birth parents, adoptive parents, the adoptee, and extended family,” he said. The new adoption support service being established this year is an important element of the modern adoption system this government is putting in place."