Commentary on Sections Part 1 – Adoption Chapter 2 – The Adoption Service
25.Chapter 2 makes provision for the structure of the adoption service. Some of the sections re-model provisions of the Adoption Act 1976. However, this Chapter also underpins some important areas of new policy dealing with adoption support services (including financial support) and independent reviews of qualifying determinations (see section 12). Registration of voluntary organisations which are adoption societies is to be undertaken by the registration authority (the National Care Standards Commission where the principal office is in England and the National Assembly where the principal office is in Wales) under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000. Chapter 2 amends the Care Standards Act 2000 to make provision for the registration of adoption support agencies (see section 8) and to clarify the distribution of functions between the registration authorities given that registered adoption societies will be cross-border bodies (see section 16).