Policies and Procedures / Social Services - Child Adoption

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The Advocacy Fund

Dear Rhondda Cynon Taff Council,

Under the Freedom of information act please can you send to me electronic copies of

A The policies and procedures which relate to social services removing children from the care of their parents.

B The criteria which has to be fulfilled to make a child eligible for being adopted out of a parents care

C What psychological assessments are used on the parents? (or other assessments) and a copy of a blank version.

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This FOI is made by the following organisation and not by an individual

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Please Forward all Responses to our Information Officer

Yours faithfully

Jane Clearly
Information Officer
The Advocacy Fund

Gummer, Claire, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

Dear Ms Clearly

Thank you for your request for information which is receiving attention.

I shall look into this matter and shall contact you again in due course.

Yours sincerely

Claire

Claire Gummer
Corporate Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Rhondda Cynon Taff C.B.C.
The Pavilions
Cambrian Park
Clydach Vale
Tonypandy
CF40 2XX

Tel: (01443) 424111
Fax: (01443) 424114
Email: [email address]

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Gummer, Claire, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

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Dear Ms Clearly

Further to your Freedom of Information Request in respect of the above,
please find attached, copies of the Authority's Adoption Agency Policy,
and Permanency Policy. A copy of the Public Law Outline Guidance will
follow shortly.

Also, set out below is the link to further legislation relating to All
Wales Child Protection Procedures
http://www.awcpp.org.uk/areasofwork/safe...
resandprotocols/index.html

The parents of children who are being considered for adoption are not
routinely subject to formal psychological assessment and any decision to
commission such an assessment is determined on a case by case basis,
usually as a result of a direction given by a judge in court
proceedings. Many parents are not therefore, subject to formal
psychological assessment. Where it is deemed by the court to be
beneficial to the best interests of the child in question, these
assessments are commissioned specifically and follow no fixed format or
template.

Yours sincerely

Claire

Claire Gummer
Corporate Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Rhondda Cynon Taff C.B.C.
The Pavilions
Cambrian Park
Clydach Vale
Tonypandy
CF40 2XX

Tel: (01443) 424111
Fax: (01443) 424114
Email: [email address]

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Gummer, Claire, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

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Dear Ms Clearly

Attached is a copy of the Public Law Outline Guidance.

Yours sincerely

Claire

Claire Gummer
Corporate Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Rhondda Cynon Taff C.B.C.
The Pavilions
Cambrian Park
Clydach Vale
Tonypandy
CF40 2XX

Tel: (01443) 424111
Fax: (01443) 424114
Email: [email address]

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