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Adoption - a (fairly) new approach

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Date:6 DEC 2005

Deborah Cullen, secretary to the Legal Group of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF). The article considers how far key provisions of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 meet the aims outlined in the White Paper of December 2000, Adoption a new approach", and the impact of other provisions in the Act (including placement orders and adoption by unmarried couples) not explicitly addressed in the White Paper. See Child and Family Law Quarterly, Vol 17, No 4 2005, p 475 for the full article.

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