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The Adoption Support Services (Local Authorities) (England) Regulations 2003

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Adoption support services adviser

4.—(1) The local authority shall appoint a person (an “adoption support services adviser”) to carry out the function specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The function of the adoption support services adviser shall be to give advice and information, to persons who may be affected by the adoption or proposed adoption of a child, as to—

(i)services that may be appropriate to those persons; and

(ii)how those services may be made available to them.

(3) The local authority shall not appoint a person as an adoption support services adviser unless satisfied that his knowledge and experience of—

(a)the process of adoption; and

(b)the effect of the adoption of a child on persons likely to be affected by the adoption,

is sufficient for the purposes of the work that he is to perform.

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