Glasgow and West of Scotland Adoption Service
Glasgow and West of Scotland Adoption Service (GWSAS) is a partnership with the authorities listed below who work to recruit, prepare and assess adoptive parents for children 0-2 years.
If you live within one of these authorities then your enquiry will be dealt by GWSAS.
Glasgow City Council
East Ayrshire
East Dunbartonshire
East Renfrewshire
Inverclyde
North Ayrshire
North Lanarkshire
Renfrew
South Ayrshire
West Dunbartonshire
GWSAS is a service for children who for various reasons cannot live with their birth parents and whose needs will be best met through adoption.
The criteria for adopting children 0-2 years
- All applicants must be over 21 years old.
- Couples must be married and must have lived together for at least two years prior to the enquiry. *
- Applications will not be accepted from couples where the younger partner is older than 39 years and 6 months, or the elder partner is older than 44 years and 6 months.
- Applications will not be accepted from enquirers currently undergoing any form of infertility treatment or from enquirers on a waiting list for treatment.
- Single applicants will be considered.
- For single applicants, applications will not be accepted where the applicant is older than 39 years and 6 months.
- Enquirers must live in one of the authorities mentioned in the list above.
- All applicants will be subject to local authority health, employment and Disclosure Scotland checks.
* We are currently awaiting the results from the consultation process regarding the new regulations from the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.