Title:
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ADOPTION: POST-LEGISLATIVE SCRUTINY REPORT
HOUSE OF LORDS PAPER 127 SESSION 2012-13 |
By: |
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Adoption , The Stationery Office (Editor), Anne Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss |
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Paperback |
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ISBN 10: |
0108550400 |
ISBN 13: |
9780108550409 |
Publisher: |
TSO |
Pub. date: |
6 March, 2013 |
Series: |
House of Lords Papers |
Pages: |
96 |
Synopsis: |
The House of Lords report Adoption: Post-Legislative Scrutiny (HL 127) warns that the Government's focus on driving up the number of adoptions should not be delivered at the expense of other routes to permanence, such as special guardianship or kinship care, for children for whom adoption may not be suitable. The Committee is concerned that there is a significant lack of information about rates of adoption breakdown. The most pressing issue is that of post-adoption support. Children adopted from care have a range of needs due to their early life experiences, often of abuse or neglect, which are not resolved simply by being adopted. There should be a statutory duty on local authorities and other service commissioning bodies to ensure the provision of post-adoption support. The drive to increase adoptions must not undermine preventative programs and efforts to keep birth families together; the Committee recommends a pilot scheme offering support to families |
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UK |
Imprint: |
TSO |
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