CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
Draft legislation on adoption
Chapter 2: Placement of looked after children with prospective adopters
What is the legislation seeking to achieve?
How does fostering for adoption differ from concurrent planning?
Does the legislation create a new duty?
Box 1: Our suggestion for amending draft clauses 9A, 9B and 9C of section 22C of the 1989 Children Act
Will fostering for adoption reduce the time children have to wait for an adoptive placement and minimise disruption caused by moving between placements?
Box 2: Statutory Guidance on Adoption
Practical application of the new duty
Other consequences of the draft legislation
Chapter 3: Matching for adoption: Repeal of the requirement to give due consideration to ethnicity in England
Box 3: Adoption and Children Act 2002
What is the legislation seeking to achieve?
The case for legislation
What effect will the legislation have?
Box 4: Proposed amendment to section 1 (4) of Adoption and Children Act 2002
Chapter 4: Recommendations
Appendix 1: Members and Declarations of Interest
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Appendix 3: Letter From Edward Timpson MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families, Department for Education dated 7 November 2012
Appendix 4: Keeling Schedule of Section 22C of the Children Act 1989
Evidence is published online at www.parliament.uk/hladoption
and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020
7219 5314)
References in footnotes to the Report are as follows:
Q refers to a question in oral evidence
Witness names without a question reference refer
to written evidence
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