The Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005

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PART 1E+WGENERAL

Citation, commencement and applicationE+W

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 30th December 2005.

(2) These Regulations apply to England only.

InterpretationE+W

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Adoption and Children Act 2002;

“the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989;

[F1“the 1989 Regulations” means the Children Act 1989 Representations Procedure (England) Regulations 2006;]

[F2the 2010 Regulations” means the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010;]

“adoption panel” means a panel established in accordance with regulation 3;

“adoption placement plan” has the meaning given in regulation 35(2);

“adoption placement report” means the report prepared by the adoption agency in accordance with regulation 31(2)(d);

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“adoption support services” has the meaning given in section 2(6)(a) of the Act and in any regulations made under section 2(6)(b) of the Act;

“adoptive family” has the meaning given in regulation 31(2)(a);

“CAFCASS” means the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service M1;

[F4care order” has the meaning given in section 105(1) of the 1989 Act;]

“child's case record” has the meaning given in regulation 12;

“child's health report” means the report obtained in accordance with regulation 15(2)(b);

“child's permanence report” means the report prepared by the adoption agency in accordance with regulation 17(1);

“independent member” in relation to an adoption panel has the meaning given in regulation 3(3)(e);

“independent review panel” means a panel constituted under section 12 of the Act;

“joint adoption panel” means an adoption panel established in accordance with regulation 3(5);

“medical adviser” means the person appointed as the medical adviser by the adoption agency in accordance with regulation 9(1);

[F1“preparation for adoption” has the meaning given in regulation 24;]

“proposed placement” has the meaning given in regulation 31(1);

[F1“prospective adopter assessment plan” has the meaning given in regulation 29;]

“prospective adopter's case record” has the meaning given in regulation 22(1);

[F1“prospective adopter matching plan” has the meaning given in regulation 30H;]

“prospective adopter's report” means the report prepared by the adoption agency in accordance with [F5regulation 30(2)];

“prospective adopter's review report” means the report prepared by the adoption agency in accordance with [F6regulation 30D(4)(a)];

[F1“prospective adopter stage one plan” has the meaning given in regulation 22;]

“qualifying determination” has the meaning given in [F7regulation 30B(5)(a)];

“registration authority” means [F8Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills];

“relevant foreign authority” means a person, outside the British Islands performing functions in the country in which the child is, or in which the prospective adopter is, habitually resident which correspond to the functions of an adoption agency M2 or to the functions of the Secretary of State in respect of adoptions with a foreign element;

“relevant post-qualifying experience” means post-qualifying experience in child care social work including direct experience in adoption work;

“section 83 case” means a case where a person who is habitually resident in the British Islands intends to bring, or to cause another to bring, a child into the United Kingdom in circumstances where section 83 of the Act (restriction on bringing children into the United Kingdom) applies;

“social worker” means a person who is registered as a social worker in [F9[F10the register of social workers in England maintained under section 39(1) of the Children and Social Work Act 2017], in the register maintained by] [F11Social Care Wales under section 80 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016] or in a corresponding register maintained under the law of Scotland or Northern Ireland;

“vice chair” has the meaning given in regulation 3(4) or, as the case may be, (5)(c);

“working day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 M3.

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Textual Amendments

F1Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.7.2013) by The Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/985), regs. 1, 3(a)

F2Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (25.7.2014) by The Adoption and Care Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1556), regs. 1, 3

F3Words in reg. 2 omitted (25.7.2014) by virtue of The Adoption and Children Act Register Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1492), regs. 1, 8(a)

F4Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.9.2012) by The Adoption Agencies (Panel and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1410), regs. 1, 3

F5Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/985), regs. 1, 3(b)

F6Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/985), regs. 1, 3(c)

F7Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/985), regs. 1, 3(d)

F8Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.4.2007) by The Education and Inspections Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/603), regs. 1, 3

F9Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.8.2012) by The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential Provision—Social Workers) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1479), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 74(2)

F10Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (2.12.2019) by The Children and Social Work Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments) (Social Workers) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1094), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 10(a); S.I. 2019/1436, reg. 2(b)