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Adoption and Family Information Service (AFIS)

We provide services for people, mainly South Australians, who are affected by past adoptions, people who are considering placing their child for adoption and people who want to adopt a child. Post Care Services, co-located with AFIS, provides services for people who were previously in State care who want to access their files.

 

Please note: the information on this website is currently being updated and will be fully available from November 2008.

 

Local Adoption Overseas Adoption

Local Adoption

Placing a child for adoption

Adopting a local born child

Adopting step children

 

Overseas Adoption

Adopting an overseas child

Past Adoption Post Care Services

Past Adoption

Information about past adoptions

Searching for birth relatives

Making contact with a birth relative

Historical information

United Kingdom - past adoption information

Post Care Services

Former Wards of the State/Children under the Guardianship of the Minister

Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people who were in care

 

The Minister for Families and Communities tabled the South Australian Government’s response to the Commission of Inquiry’s report in Parliament on the 17 June 2008.   PDF copies of the report and South Australian Government response are available for download at the Mullighan Inquiry website, which also provides other information.