Don't forget we have only until 31 July 2004 to let the government know what we want. Or we may find ourselves with a law that does places us back at 1975 atitudes.
Some adoption organisations would like birth family never to be able to find the adopted person no matter what the consequenses of that.
Some would like contact only to be posible if it is made through the adoptive parents, even if the adoptee is in his 60s or 70s and the adoptive parents in their 80s or 90s.
If we don't make our views known that is what we shall get.
NORCAP our only representitive organisation seems to be doing very little to get views accross.
The only way the views of adopted people are going to be heard is if we all make them known directly.
The whole document can be read online at
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/consultations...ltationId=1248
Consultation on Access to Information & Intermediary Services
Adoption and Children Act 2002 Implementation
Draft Regulations and Guidance for Consultation
* Access to information (Pre-commencement Adoptions)
* Access to Information (Post-commencement Adoptions)
* The Registrar General’s Functions
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