Whether it plans to amend the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 to allow for persons over the age of 18 to be legally adopted.

The current legislation is designed to protect and safeguard children and provides a range of routes to allow any family composition to permanently claim a child. In Scotland family stability is gained through kinship care orders, permanence orders for foster care and residential care, as well as adoption
- which is open to step parents and single or coupled adults.
Whilst the legislation does not extend to the adoption of individuals over 18 , there is in place legislation to allow for individuals to change their names on birth certificates and for adults to make provision in wills for the sharing of property to non biological members of their family.
We are constantly improving the procedures, services and support around adoption and permanence for children to ensure that Scotland has a modern, responsive and child-centred adoption system. There are no plans currently to extend the age of a child beyond 18 for this purpose.