In December last year the Adoption and Children Act 2002 came into forceand heralded what the Government hoped would be a radical transformationof adoption services.
For the first time it was laid out that the welfare of the child needsto be at the heart of the adoption process and a clear duty was placedon councils to provide an adoption support service both during and afteradoption. It also enabled unmarried couples to adopt for the first time,thereby bringing a raft of new adopters into the system.
But, according to the Commission for Social Care Inspection's firstmajor report into the performance of agencies since December 2005, thereare still marked differences in quality, leaving many children awaitingadoption facing a postcode lottery.
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