New provisions on the disclosure of information
Adoption and Children Bill
10:10 am
Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury, Conservative)
To ask an overall point, I would like to address the provisions relating to dispensing with parental consent. There have been many cases, including that of a nice young lady from care who told me that she would have liked to be adopted but because her mum refused—a mum whom she did not subsequently see for 10 years—she could not be adopted. Are you satisfied that the Bill will remove the ability of birth parents who are basically out of the equation to delay the process endlessly?