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Getting it right

	Price: £5.50	BAAF, Published November 2005 ISBN 1 903699 90 8

This thoroughly updated new edition provides comprehensive advice on the preparation and writing of court reports in Scottish child care cases. A wide range of cases are covered including; freeings and revocation of freeings; domestic agency and non-agency adoptions; applications for an s.49 order; intercountry adoptions; agency adoptions where Scottish children are placed in England and Wales; applications for PROs, including variation and termination; and private law applications.

Key topics covered include: principles to be followed; types of courts and cases; legal requirements in the different cases; content and layout of reports; sources of information and disclosure issues; and what happens to reports including access and retention.

This guide should prove to be an invaluable tool for all those engaged in writing court reports in child care cases, including complex adoption reports, reports for courts in England and Wales in cross border placements, and private law "Mat Pro" reports.