Dictionary definition: adoption agency

Article: Adoption: care proceedings; whether matching a matter for court ...
Adoption & Fostering;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... 4) permitting the local authority to terminate contact. The interrelation between a local authority's responsibilities as an adoption agency and the court's powers ... steps to be taken by a local authority if its care plan was ...

Article: Concurrent care and placement order proceedings: timing of ...
Adoption & Fostering;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... On behalf of the local authority it was argued that ... Alongside the local authority's role in the protection ... it was also an adoption agency under section 3 Adoption ... Children Act 2002. The local authority acting in pursuance ...

Article: Adoption and Children Act 2002 section 1(4)(f): relinquished ...
Adoption & Fostering;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... October 2006 The unmarried parents of a baby requested the local authority to place the baby for adoption. The parents had been in ... made the child a ward of court and sought an order that the local authority did not need to consult the maternal and paternal families ...

Article: More than just a letter: service user perspectives on one ...
Adoption & Fostering;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Postbox contact, in which an adoption agency mediates the exchange of letters between adoptive and birth ... Frazer and Peter Wrighton draws on a recent evaluation of one local authority's postbox service and in particular the perspectives of ...

Article: Mexican mother sued adoption agency allegedly ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ...LAREDO, Texas _ An adoption agency worker accused of running an ... San Antonio-based AAA Alamo Adoption Agency, has been charged with three ... client," he said. The Alamo adoption agency Wednesday issued a written statement ...

Article: Chicago family says battle with Utah adoption ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  March 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... said their fight against the Utah adoption agency they say pressured the baby's mother ... persisted until this week when an adoption agency in suburban Salt Lake City declined ... s mother and grandmother sued the adoption agency in January to get Tamia back, claiming ...

Article: Minnesota-run adoption agency in Liberia ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 10, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Liberia has removed 35 children from an adoption agency in that country operated by a Minnesota ... of an ongoing investigation of the adoption agency founded by Liberian-born Maria Luyken ... investigating WACSN and a Wisconsin-based adoption agency to ensure that the children were ...