Adoption and Permanent Care Standards, 1986
Introduction and Contents
Adoption standards establish the directions in which services are to be developed, and the functions and practices of agencies in providing adoption services.
These standards define and describe an accepted level of practice and establish consistent and congruent functions for service delivery. They provide a basis for
professional practice and set expectations on agency procedures. The standards are bound up, therefore, with the question of the quality of adoption
services .
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Adoption standards establish the directions in which services are to be developed, and the functions and practices of agencies in providing adoption services.
These standards define and describe an accepted level of practice and establish consistent and congruent functions for service delivery. They provide a basis for
professional practice and set expectations on agency procedures. The standards are bound up, therefore, with the question of the quality of adoption
services .
1. Standards - adoption
4. Adoptive parent recruitment and selection
1. Overall assumptions
2. Overall objectives
2. Relinquishment services
2. Overall objectives
1. Counselling prospective relinquishing parents
2. Giving and withdrawing consent
3. Dispensation of consent
4. Post relinquishment services
5. Care of child prior to adoptive placement
6. Case planning
3. The child in adoption2. Giving and withdrawing consent
3. Dispensation of consent
4. Post relinquishment services
5. Care of child prior to adoptive placement
6. Case planning
4. Adoptive parent recruitment and selection
1. General principles
2. Special needs applicants
3. Inter-country applicants
4. Applicant appeal processes
5. Adoption arrangements involving particular groups
2. Special needs applicants
3. Inter-country applicants
4. Applicant appeal processes
1. Relatives and step-parents
2. Aborigines
3. Inter-country
6. Adoption placement services
2. Aborigines
3. Inter-country
1. Linking of child and adoptive family
2. Introduction of child to adoptive family
3. Placement supervision
4. After the granting of an adoption order
7. Adoption agencies
2. Introduction of child to adoptive family
3. Placement supervision
4. After the granting of an adoption order
1. Agency registration
2. Monitoring and evaluation
2. Monitoring and evaluation
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