Sue Granville and Shona Mulholland, George Street Research
ISBN 0 7559 2963 2
ISSN 0950 2254
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Executive Summary
Chapter One - Background
1.1 Background
1.2 Components of the Consultation
1.3 Aims of the overall Consultation
Chapter Two - The Consultation Process
2.1 Timing of the Consultation
2.2 Nature of the Consultation
2.3 Distribution and Advertising of Consultation Document
2.4 Responses and Respondents
Chapter Three - Approach to Analysis of Consultation Response
3.1 Analytical Framework
3.2 Publication of Written Responses
3.3 Ground Rules
3.4 Reporting
Chapter Four - Adoption
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Definition of an Unmarried Couple
4.3 Stability and Permanence in a Relationship
4.4 Other Issues for Consideration
4.5 Exceptions or Special Rules
4.6 The issuing of guidance
4.7 On which issues should parental views be sought
Chapter Five - Permanence Order
5.1 Introduction of a Permanence Order
5.2 Role of Children's Hearings systems in Permanence Orders
Chapter Six - Support for Adoption
6.1 Additional Adoption Support Services that might be prescribed
6.2 Should Local Authorities have an Adoption Support Officer within the Senior Management Team
6.3 Should a Local Authority placing a child for adoption have responsibility for providing adoption support services to the child and the adoptive family for three years after the adoption order
6.4 How widespread should any entitlement to Adoption Support be
Chapter Seven - Improving Court Rules and Avoiding Delays
7.1 Whether a system of leave to apply to court would be effective in providing the protection from repeated or vexatious applications for children and adoptive families
7.2 Views on whether other statutory measures would make the system of leave a more effective safeguard
7.3 Whether legislation should limit the circumstances in which an applicant could seek information about an adopted child in support of an application to court
Chapter Eight - Curators, Reporting Officers and Safeguarders
Chapter Nine - Role of the Children's Hearings System in Permanence Cases
9.1 Recommendation 62
9.2 Recommendation 63
9.3 Recommendation 64
9.4 Recommendation 65
9.5 Recommendation 66
9.6 Recommendation 67
9.7 Recommendation 68
9.8 Recommendation 69
9.9 Recommendation 70
9.10 Recommendation 71
9.11 Additional Comments
9.12 The Qualitative View
Chapter Ten - Fostering Issues
10.1 Views on a national scale of fostering allowances
10.2 Views on the proposed working group on private fostering and what the remit of such a group might be
Chapter Eleven - Procedures within Local Authorities and Agencies
11.1 Recommendation 88
11.2 Recommendation 89
11.3 Recommendation 90
11.4 Recommendation 91
11.5 Recommendation 92
11.6 Recommendation 93
11.7 Recommendation 94
11.8 Recommendation 95
11.9 Recommendation 96
11.10 Recommendation 97
11.11 Recommendation 98
11.12 Recommendation 99
11.13 The Qualitative Viewpoint
Chapter Twelve - Access to Information
12.1 Provision of medical information
12.2 Provision of other information
Chapter Thirteen - Additional Issues
Chapter Fourteen - Conclusions
Appendices
Appendix 1 Scottish Executive Consultation Paper
Appendix 2 Scottish Civic Forum Briefing Paper
Appendix 3 Report of Four Consultation Meetings
Appendix 4 Summary of Consultation Questions
Tables
Chapter One - Background
1.1 Respondent Profile
Chapter Two - The Consultation Process
2.1 Questions Contained in the Consultation Document
2.2 Total Number of Respondents by Category
Chapter Four - Adoption
4.1 Quantitative Views on Recommendations 6 and 7
The views expressed in this report are those of the researcher and
do not necessarily represent those of the Department or Scottish Ministers.