- "To overhaul and modernise the legal framework for domestic and inter-country adoption and in particular to replace provisions of the outdated Adoption Act 1976.
- To put adoption law in line with the existing provisions of the Children Act 1989 to ensure the child's welfare is the paramount consideration in all decisions relating to adoption.
- To place a duty on local authorities to maintain an adoption service and provide adoption support services.
- To provide for adoption orders to be made in favour of single people, married couples and unmarried couples.
- To introduce a new independent review mechanism for prospective adopters who feel they have been turned down unfairly.
- To provide a new system for access to information held in adoption agency records and by the Register General about adoptions, which take place after the Act comes into force.
- To provide additional restrictions on bringing a child into the UK for adoption.
- To provide restrictions on arranging adoptions and advertising children for adoption.
- To cut delays in the adoption process by establishing an Adoption and Children Act Register to suggest links between children and approved adopters.
- To bring in new court rules governing the making of adoption orders and measures requiring the courts to draw up timetables for adoption cases to be heard. Freeing orders are now replaced for "placement orders".
- To introduce a new special guardianship order for children for whom adoption is not a suitable option but who cannot return to their birth families.
- To provide that an unmarried father can acquire parental responsibility for his natural child where he and the child's mother register the birth of their child together. (see the children section on the homepage for further information).
- To introduce arrangements for step-fathers to acquire parental responsibility."
All information used is taken from the Compact Law website, and is used from research purposes only.
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