Adoption
Brochures
Forms
- Expression of Interest Intercountry Program form
- Expression of Interest General Children's Program form
Guides and manuals
- Information booklets:
- Adoptive parent education:
- Intercountry adoptive parent education
- Local adoptive parent education (coming soon)
- Schedule of fees - as at 1 July 2009
Legislation
- Acts and regulations:
- Adoption of Children Act 1964
- Adoption of Children Regulation 1999
- Surrogate Parenthood Act 1988
- Adoption Act 2009 (to commence in early 2010)
- New adoption laws for Queensland
- History of adoption legislation
Suggested reading
If you are interested in finding out more about the issues relating to adoption, refer to the suggested readings in the bibliography section of our adoptive parent education program.
Websites
- Australian African Children's Aid and Support Association
- Intercountry adoption - Australian Government Attorney-General's Department
- Baby Bonus and Maternity Immunisation Allowance for adoptive parents factsheet - Important changes to family payments have come into effect 1 January 2009.
- International Adoptive Families of Queensland
- Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
- UNICEF Convention on the rights of the child
- United Nations Convention on the rights of the child (UNCROC) 1989
- Last updated
- 9 October 2009