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Assessment process for adopters to be reformed
The assessment process for prospective adopters is to be overhauled, the Government announced today. Children’s Minister Tim Loughton has asked a group of experts to draw up a new process to recruit, train and assess people as adoptive parents. The current system is slow and unnecessarily bureaucratic. Potentially suitable adopters are often turned away because…
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Tagged Adoption, British Association of Adoption and Fostering, Family, Government, News
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Adoption – we had everything to gain
Adoption can bring with it worry and joy for all those involved. We spoke to babyworld member Dave Gore for an honest account of what life is now like for him and his family. It was our last chance We began the adoption process after IVF, which didn’t work. Adoption was our last chance of…
How will parental leave affect you?
15 December 1999 HOW WILL PARENTAL LEAVE AFFECT YOU? A NEW package of laws and rights come into force today in the UK to help parents strike a healthy balance between work and home life – but will they help you? Babyworld looks at what the parental leave rights will mean to you if you…
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Tagged Adoption, Family, Family law, Maternity, Parental leave
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Adoption to be made easier
Adoption is to be made easier by abolishing arcane rules and increasing the number of children adopted each year by at least 50%. Changes to the process will be ordered by the government and include the end to rules which can currently stop a black child being adopted by a mixed race family. There are more than…
Your top ten parental leave questions answered
We answer your most common questions about your rights and legal entitlements as a working parent. What is parental leave? The right to parental leave came into effect on 15 December 1999. It enables parents, including adoptive parents, who have children under the age of 5, to take a maximum of 13 weeks unpaid leave…
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Tagged Adoption, Parental leave, Parenting, unpaid leave, working parents
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What is involved with adoption
According to government statistics, more than 60,000 children were in the care of local authorities in England and Wales in 2003. While many of these will return home within eight weeks, many will still be left requiring and deserving a loving family. We take a look at what adoption involves and the most common queries. Why adopt? There…
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Instant mums : adoption : Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie, the celebrated daughter of Midnight Cowboy John Voight and famed for her off-the-wall behaviour, became a mum when she adopted baby Maddox on March 11, 2002. Ideal mother? When Angelina married Brit star Jonny Lee Miller in 1999, she waltzed down the aisle wearing a white shirt adorned with Jonny’s name written in…
Shortage of adoptive families
It’s National Adoption Week, but families willing to take on a child are currently in short supply, say campaigners. Five thousand children in the UK alone need a new home each year, but many are left spending too long in temporary care due to the shortage of adoptive families willing to offer a permanent loving residence. In fact,…
Adoptive Parents to be allowed paid leave
Parents who adopt children are set to receive new rights to take paid leave. Ministers are preparing moves to give adoptive parents leave paid at the equivalent rate to maternity pay. Until Labour came to power adoptive parents had no right to any leave, but they can now take 13 weeks unpaid time off. However, local authorities only…
Parents must return adopted baby
11 July, 2000 A COUPLE who adopted a Texan baby for £12,700 and brought her to the UK has been ordered to send her back to the United States. The order was made by a High Court judge, who criticised the way the adoption of the girl, born on December 18 last year, was handled. Social services…
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Tagged Adoption, Family, Family law, Foster care, Georgia Tann, Johnson, Judge, local social services, social services, social worker, USD
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