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The Adoption and Children Act 2002 repealed the Adoption Act 1976 and significantly amended the Children Act 1989. It marked an important change in the government’s policy towards adoption, particularly in the use made of it by local authorities in respect of looked after children, and follows very closely the same process of change implemented in the US.1 The 2002 Act provides a strong lead for the adoption law reviews currently underway in Scotland and Northern Ireland. This legislation was the product of a decade and more of debate and now provides a strategic consolidation of policy, principles and the law in adoption and child care practice.
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O’Halloran, K. (2006). THE ADOPTION PROCESS IN ENGLAND & WALES: THE ADOPTION AND CHILDREN ACT 2002. In: The Politics of Adoption. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4154-3_6
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