The Adoption and Children Bill
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The Adoption and Children Bill Progress of the Adoption and Children Bill White paper - December 2000 Commons 1st reading - 19/10/2001 Commons 2nd reading - 29/10/2001 Commons Standing Committee - 6/11/2001 & 18/12/2002 Commons Remaining stages - 20/3/2002 Commons 3rd reading - 20/05/2002 Lords 1st reading - 21/5/2002 Lords 2nd reading - 10/06/2002 Lords Committee - 4/7/2002 & 11/7/2002 & 18/7/2002 Lords Report - 15/10/2002 & 16/10/2002 & 23/10/2002 Lords 3rd reading - 30/10/2002 Commons - Lords Amendments - 4/11/2002 Commons amendments - 5/11/2002 Royal Assent - 7/11/2002 Problems faced by adoption agencies One of the major problems is the amount of children in care for a long period of time. In 1999 28,000 children had been in care for 2 years, whilst 12,000 had been looked after for 5 years or more. For these children the care system does not provide long term care with a foster or adoptive family. The instability of children in care is not the only problem. There seems...


