"adoption order" is correct and usable in written English.
You can typically use it to refer to a legal document making an adoption official. For example, "After months of paperwork, we finally received the adoption order and were able to take our daughter home."
The results of the significant raising of adoption's profile over the last year will not be seen for another couple of years and we are optimistic that the adoption statistics will increase – not least because the lead-in time from placement to adoption order is considerable, so the recent statistics reflect adoptive placements being made one to two years ago.
Sometimes difficulties emerge years after the adoption order is made, but local authorities have a duty towards adoptive families until the child reaches the age of 18, and all our adopters are invited to our support group, even if the placement is going well.
"Mr. and Mrs. A. now intend to apply for an adoption order in respect of the twins in order that Mr. A. will regain his legal standing".
She has seen cases where parents have made significant improvements and, despite this being acknowledged within social services' own documentation, councils still "persist on the route towards a care order or adoption order".
In a ruling released last month on an adoption order for two toddlers, Judge Stephen Wildblood QC demanded an explanation as to why inadequate final evidence was submitted and other case management failings.
Although Gloucestershire asked the court to trust it to act appropriately in future if an adoption order was made, Claire Rowsell, representing the council, accepted there was little reason, given social workers' bunglings, for the judge to do so.
He said that care orders with a plan for adoption, placement orders and adoption orders are "a very extreme thing, a last resort" where "no other course is possible in the child's interests".
Adoption orders are sealed by law in Arkansas, but it is unclear whether this adoption will turn out to be valid, experts said.
Prince believes it's essential for local authorities to be challenged more rigorously on their evidence and reasoning when they're asking for placement and adoption orders.
The comments made in Re B-S about poor evidence gathering by social workers and badly argued cases for placement and adoption orders being nodded through lower courts have created huge difficulties for child protection teams.
Munby's view firmly underscores a slew of recent rulings by other judges that criticise social services' deployment of section 20, and make plain their displeasure at unwarranted delays in applications for adoption orders.
