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Adoption agencies - number of attendees for conducting business Duty
- Description
- Where a local authority is an Adoption Agency, it must, with regard to meetings of adoption panels ensure no business is conducted by an adoption panel unless at least the following meet as the panel —
(a) either the person appointed to chair the panel or one of the vice chairs,
(b) one person falling within regulation 3(1)(a),
(c) one other independent person
An adoption panel must also make a written record of its proceedings, its recommendations and the reasons for its recommendations.
- Modified
- 09 Feb 2022
- Status
- Live
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