CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Chapter 1: Introduction
Background—Child Contact
Background—Adoption
The Draft Bill
Chapter 2: Contact Activities (clause 1)
The nature of problems over contact
Power to make a contact activity direction
What should 'contact activities' include?
Availability of contact activities
Suitability of contact activity providers
Mediation
'Family resolution' scheme
Chapter 3: Facilitating and Monitoring Contact
(clause 2)
Family Assistance Orders (FAOs)
Chapter 4: Enforcement Orders (clause 3)
Curfew/time and place requirement
Compliance monitoring (tagging)
Enforcement powers
Unpaid work
Monitoring and implementing Enforcement Orders
Safety concerns
Welfare of the child
Chapter 5: Compensation for Financial Loss
(Clause 4)
Chapter 6: Welfare checklist in Children
Act 1989
Chapter 7: Adoptions with a Foreign Element
(clauses 6 to 8)
Consultation and Regulations
Reasons for imposition of special restrictions
Imposing special restrictions
Requirement to consult
Guillotine for proceeding with adoption from
restricted countries
Provision for exceptional cases
Inter-Country Adoption Agency
Chapter 8: Resources
The family courts and CAFCASS
Contact activities
Regulatory Impact Assessment
Chapter 9: Conclusions and Recommendations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Contact Activities (clause 1)
Chapter 3: Facilitating and monitoring contact
(clause 2)
Chapter 4 Enforcement orders (clause 3)
Chapter 5: Compensation for financial loss
(clause 4)
Chapter 6: Welfare checklist in Children
Act 1989
Chapter 7: Adoptions with a foreign element
(clauses 6 to 8)
Chapter 8: Resources
Appendix 1: Joint Committee on the Draft
Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for Evidence
Appendix 4: List of Acronyms
Appendix 5: Formal Minutes
NOTE:
The Report of the Committee is published in Volume
I, HC 400-I, HL Paper No.100-I.
The Evidence of the Committee is published in Volume
II, HC 400-II, HL Paper No. 100-II.
References in the text of the Report are as follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence (Volume
II, HC 400-II, HL Paper No. 100-II)
(Ev) refers to a page of evidence (Volume II, HC
400-II, HL Paper No. 100-II)
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 100-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 100-II)
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