9 Contact: post-adoption
Children and Families Act 2014 (2014 c 6) | Legislation

9  Contact: post-adoption

(1)     After section 51 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 insert—

“Post-adoption contact

51A Post-adoption contact

(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     an adoption agency has placed or was authorised to place a child for adoption, and

(b)     the court is making or has made an adoption order in respect of the child.

(2)     When making the adoption order or at any time afterwards, the court may make an order under this section—

(a)     requiring the person in whose favour the adoption order is or has been made to allow the child to visit or stay with the person named in the order under this section, or for the person named in that order and the child otherwise to have contact with each other, or

(b)     prohibiting the person named in the order under this section from having contact with the child.

(3)     The following people may be named in an order under this section—

(a)     any person who (but for the child's adoption) would be related to the child by blood (including half-blood), marriage or civil partnership;

(b)     any former guardian of the child;

(c)     any person who had parental responsibility for the child

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