Sentence examples for adoption panel from inspiring English sources

Now, only government-approved adoption agencies can undertake home studies, which then go to the relevant local authority adoption panel for approval.

He said that the council ignored the rights of the parents and child, and gave false evidence to an adoption panel without ever having questioned the ability of parents to care for the child.

"Our adoption panel will be in March and we've been told if all goes well we should have a child within three months as there are over 25 youngsters waiting," says Wren (not his real name).

Public Life 2013-present: founder member, Leather Lane Writers; 2012-present: founder member, Oxford Narrative Group; 2013-15: independent member, Solihull adoption panel; 2011-15: trustee, Prisoners Abroad Interests Tennis, knitting, baking, reading.

She spent her first post-hedonistic year consuming sombre military novels recommended by a colleague before discovering – and devouring – the Penguin Classics, and forging a career in criminal and family law: working in social services, training foster carers, being on an adoption panel and becoming a magistrate.

We were always very, very keen to adopt Jade as well as Cammie – but at one point the social worker told us we should make clear to the adoption panel that we weren't taking it for granted that we'd be able to.

Others could abandon adoption panels scrutinising who might adopt and for which children.

I view fostering and adoption panels as valuable.

He proposed the disbanding of adoption panels on the grounds they "add little value".

I've been on adoption panels, and sometimes there is no other option".

In a position statement it recommends initiatives including a review of the information collected, to ensure all questions are relevant, and the streamlining of adoption panels, so that they focus on selection rather than care planning.