Children and Adoption Bill [HL]

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Session 2005 - 06
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Children and Adoption Bill [HL]

Children and Adoption Bill [HL]

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department for Education and Skills,

are published separately as Bill 96—EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Secretary Ruth Kelly has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the

Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Children and Adoption Bill [HL] are compatible

with the Convention rights.

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Contents

Part 1

Orders with respect to children in family proceedings

Contact with children

1

Contact activity directions and conditions

2

Monitoring contact

3

Contact orders: warning notices

4

Enforcement orders

5

Compensation for financial loss

Family assistance orders

6

Provision as to family assistance orders

Risk assessments

7

Risk assessments

Transitional provision

8

Transitional provision

Part 2

Adoptions with a foreign element

9

Declaration of special restrictions on adoptions from abroad

10

Review

11

The special restrictions

12

Imposition of extra conditions in certain cases

13

Power to charge

14

Other amendments relating to adoptions from abroad

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Part 3

Miscellaneous and final

Miscellaneous provisions

15

Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

Final provisions

16

Regulations and orders

17

Short title, commencement and extent

Schedule 1   —

Enforcement orders

Part 1   —

Unpaid work requirement

Part 2   —

Revocation, amendment or breach of enforcement order

Schedule 2   —

Minor and consequential amendments

Schedule 3   —

Repeals