This part of the guidance explains the duties of an adoption agency where the agency is considering adoption for a child.
Table of Contents
- Statutory guidance on adoption
- Ministerial foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Adoption agency arrangements
- Chapter 2: Deciding if a child should be placed for adoption
- Introduction
- Planning for permanence
- Concurrent planning
- Considering adoption for a child
- The child’s adoption case record: AAR 12
- Counselling and informing the child: AAR 13
- Counselling and informing the child’s family and others: AAR
- Counselling fathers without parental responsibility
- Relinquishment for adoption of children under six weeks
- Obtaining information about the child and his/her family
- Health assessment
- Access to health information
- Child’s permanence report: AAR 17
- The adoption panel: AAR 18
- Agency decision: AAR 19
- Adoption Register
- Consent to placement for adoption
- ‘Consent’ where the child is under six weeks old
- Chapter 3: Prospective adopters CURRENT valid until 30/06/13
- Chapter 3: Prospective adopters - valid from 1 July 2013
- Chapter 4: Matching and proposing a placement
- Chapter 5: Placement and reviews
- Chapter 6: Adoption records
- Chapter 7: Contact
- Chapter 8: Agency and LA duties in court proceedings
- Chapter 9: Adoption support services
- Chapter 10: Intermediary services and access to information
- Chapter 11: Information access in post-commencement adoption
- Chapter 12: Post-adoption counselling and registers
- Annex A: Offences - since 30 December 2005
Statutory guidance on adoption:
Chapter 2: Deciding if a child should be placed for adoption
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- Statutory guidance
- Updated: 03 May 2013
