Adoption Law - A Practical Guide
- Publisher:
- Wildy Simmonds & Hill
- Publication date:
- 2020-08-29
- Authors:
-
Nasreen Pearce
Richard Budworth - ISBN:
- 9780854902859
Description:
The Adoption and Children Act 2002, which sets out the statutory framework, contains 115 sections and 5 schedules. These provisions are supported by secondary legislation, international conventions, rules, guidance, practice notes and case law that has developed since the Act came into force. Adoption Law: A Practical Guide seeks to provide a comprehensive guide to the law, practice and procedure for professionals as well as those who are concerned with or involved in the adoption process. It covers each stage of the adoption process, including the difficult issue of contact between the child and their birth parents and the alternative options available by reference to the relevant case law and regulations in relation to domestic adoptions as well as adoptions with a foreign element. Registration of adoption and the sensitive issue of disclosure of information are also considered. The book deals with the statutory obligations and responsibilities imposed on adoption agencies, support services and other professional bodies who are concerned with adoption towards all the parties, including the child who is the subject of the proceedings. It also outlines the rights of those parties to challenge decisions made by the professional bodies involved in the process. "A thorough, well-sign-posted yet concise digest that should be on the shelves of any adoption professional … will become indispensable to professionals in the field.” British Journal of Social Work (Kate Cowell, Panel Adviser Contract England).
Preliminary sections & table of contents
Content
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Statutory Instruments
- Table of European and International Material
- Table of Statutory Guidance, etc
- Table of Judicial Practice Directions and Guidance
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Who May Adopt?
- The Child
- Placement for Adoption and Placement Orders
- Conditions for Making an Adoption Order
- Dispensing with Parental Consent
- Criteria to Be Applied - Welfare Must Be the Paramount Consideration
- Post-placement and Post-adoption Contact
- Adoption Order Application - Procedure
- Amendment, Revocation and Setting Aside of an Adoption Order
- Consequences of Adoption
- Adoptions with a Foreign Element
- Convention Adoptions
- Overseas Adoptions
- Intercountry Adoptions - Other than Convention Adoptions/'Overseas Adoptions'
- Adoption Agencies
- Intermediary Services for Persons Adopted before 30 December 2005
- Adoption Support Services and Agencies
- The Registers
- The Disclosure of Information
- Index