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Governmnet Bills 2005/06 - in progress |
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| | | | Providing additional powers to the courts to facilitate contact and enforce contact orders, including: power to make "contact activity directions" to require parties to attend activities such as information sessions, meetings with a counsellor, parenting programmes/classes, and the power to attach "contact activity conditions" to contact orders.
When a contact order is breached (without a reasonable excuse), power for courts to impose enforcement orders for unpaid work, and power to award financial compensation from one person to another if the breach resulted in a financial loss.
Reforming Family Assistance Orders to extend their potential length and remove the requirement that they can only be made in exceptional circumstances.
Measures relating to intercountry adoption, including:
Providing a statutory framework for the suspension of intercountry adoptions from specified countries where there are public policy concerns about the process in that country, such as concerns about child trafficking.
Giving the Secretary of State power to charge for the administration of intercountry adoption casework.
Other reforms to improve the process of intercountry adoption.
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Explanatory Notes
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| Department for Education and Skills |
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