Books, booklets & multimedia

Making sense of the new adoption law
A guide for social and welfare services

This succinct and highly readable book is aimed primarily at childcare practitioners who need to understand how the Adoption and Children Act 2002 affects adoption agency policy and practice.

The author sets the new law in its social and political context and chronicles its evolution over more than ten years.

The reader is helped to understand not merely the provisions of the Act itself, but the purposes behind them.

As the various key provisions are discussed, current law (including case law) is included so it is easy to understand what is changing and what remains the same.

For practitioners needing to familiarise themselves with the basic framework of a complex Act, Nick Allen’s book renders it into clear and comprehensible terms.