*The Government Reply to the Report from the Joint Committee on the Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill (Cm 6583), published on 8 June 2005
*The Government Reply to the Report from the Joint Committee on the Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill (Cm 6583), published on 8 June 2005
== Provisions ==
The act contains measures to promote compliance with contact orders made under the Children Act 1989.<ref name=”:0″>{{Cite web |date=2008-08-20 |title=Children and Adoption Act 2006 {{!}} Community Care Inform |url=https://www.ccinform.co.uk/legislation/children-and-adoption-act-2006/ |access-date=2026-01-11 |website=Childrens |language=en-GB}}</ref> The act permits the Secretary of State to suspend adoptions from outside the United Kingdom where the Secretary of State has concerns about the foreign country’s adoption practices.<ref name=”:0″ />
The act clarifies the legal definition of harm so that witnessing domestic abuse is accounted for.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2005-07-05 |title=Children and Adoption Bill |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/bbc_parliament/4652077.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326013453/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/bbc_parliament/4652077.stm |archive-date=2024-03-26 |access-date=2026-01-11 |work=BBC News}}</ref>
The following orders have been made under this section:
The following orders have been made under this section:
*[https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2287/contents/made The Children and Adoption Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2007] (S.I. 2007/2287 (C. 86))
*[https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2287/contents/made The Children and Adoption Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2007] (S.I. 2007/2287 (C. 86))
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| Long title | An Act to make provision as regards contact with children; to make provision as regards family assistance orders; to make provision about risk assessments; to make provision as regards adoptions with a foreign element; and for connected purposes. |
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| Citation | 2006 c. 20 |
| Territorial extent | England and Wales, except that sections 9 to 11, 12(1) to (5) and (7), 16 and 17 also extend to Northern Ireland and the amendment or repeal of an enactment has the same extent as the enactment to which it relates.[2] |
| Royal assent | 21 June 2006 |
The Children and Adoption Act 2006 (c. 20) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The precursors of the act are:[3]
- Parental Separation: Children’s Needs and Parents’ Responsibilities (Cm 6273), a green paper published in July 2004
- Parental Separation: Children’s Needs and Parents’ Responsibilities: Next Steps (Cm 6452), published in January 2005
- The Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill, published on 2 February 2005
- The Report from the Joint Committee on the Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill, published on 12 April 2005
- The Government Reply to the Report from the Joint Committee on the Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill (Cm 6583), published on 8 June 2005
The act contains measures to promote compliance with contact orders made under the Children Act 1989.[4] The act permits the Secretary of State to suspend adoptions from outside the United Kingdom where the Secretary of State has concerns about the foreign country’s adoption practices.[4]
The act clarifies the legal definition of harm so that witnessing domestic abuse is accounted for.[5]
Section 17 – Short title, commencement and extent
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The following orders have been made under this section:
- Nick Wikeley. “Children and Adoption Act 2006”. Current Law Statutes Annotated 2006. Sweet & Maxwell. London. W Green. Edinburgh. 2006. Volume 1. Chapter 20. 20-1 to 20-41.
- Halsbury’s Statutes,
