Formal meeting (oral evidence session): Children and Families Act 2014

Likely question topics include:

• Reasons for ethnic disparities in the adoption system, such as increased waiting times for black and minority ethnicity children
• The impact of the removal of the requirement to consider ethnicity in adoption
• Recruitment of adopters from different backgrounds
• Diversity within adoption panels 
• Support for adopters and adoptees
• The suitability of existing models for permanence, including adoption and special-guardianship orders, for ethnic minority groups
• Changes needed to the adoption system

Further Information

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