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Confidentiality in adoption: local authority's negligence in disclosing name and whereabouts of adopters to birth family.(England and Wales)

B & B v A County Council Court of Appeal (Buxton and Sedley LJJ and Bodey J) 21 November 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 1388

M was placed for adoption with Mr and Mrs B and their older adopted child at the age of three-and-a-half. She had been removed from her birth parents following abuse, and her father had been convicted of physically abusing her, and of the manslaughter of her younger sibling. Between coming into care and being placed for adoption, M had been placed with her maternal grandmother and it was intended at the time of placement that there should be some future direct contact. Despite this, the adopters asked the local authority specifically to keep their address and ...

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