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Report of the Adoption Board 1997
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| Title: | Report of the Adoption Board 1997 |
| Authors: | Adoption Board |
| Publisher: | Stationery Office |
| Issue Date: | 1998 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/247475 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | This is the final Report of the present Board whose term of office finishes on the 29th
January, 1998. The Board received 108 applications for domestic adoption orders in
respect of children placed by Registered Adoption Societies and Health Boards in 1997
compared to 152 applications for declarations of eligibility and suitability to adopt a child
from overseas under Section 5(1)(iii)(II) of the Adoption Act, 1991. In total the Board
received 431 applications for adoption of Irish children of will be 269 were in respect of
family adoptions. The Board made 422 Irish adoption orders and recognised 148 foreign
adoption orders. In the five years of its existence this Board has witnessed dramatic
changes in adoption practice and trends, changes which are reflective of the rapid pace of
developments in Irish social life over the period. Despite these changes the Board is
obliged to continue to operate within a legislative framework which is ill-equipped to cater
for current adoption needs. The Board is still largely operating under a system devised in
1952. Arising out of this there are short falls and inconsistencies in the system which
should be urgently addressed by the introduction of modern consolidated legislation. The
Board calls for the modernisation of adoption legislation and an amalgamation of the
adoption code. It notes that current law consists of six separate pieces of legislation and
that the Adoption (No.2) Bill, 1996 which was withdrawn from the Seanad would have
brought the total to seven separate pieces of legislation. The Board considers that there is
an urgent need to consolidate the adoption code into one comprehensive piece of
legislation to bring adoption law into the 21st century.
The Board notes the changing nature of the domestic adoption scene with the trend
towards a more unified adoption service being provided by the Health Boards and less
involvement from the Registered Adoption Societies. During 1996 St Brigid's Adoption
Society was deregistered and St Patrick's Guild Adoption Society and the Rotunda Girls
Aid Society made a decision to cease to place children for adoption. However, all three
societies continue to provide a tracing service for their clients. In total four societies
deregistered during the lifetime of tills Board. The decision by some societies to deregister
was a natural consequence of the declining number of children being placed for adoption
by birth mothers |
| Keywords: | ADOPTION
STATISTICS |
| Series/Report no.: | Pn 4997 |
| Appears in Collections: | AAI
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