Children and Adoption Act 2006

The Children and Adoption Act 2006 (c 20) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Children and Adoption Act 2006[1]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make provision as regards contact with children; to make provision as regards family assistance orders; to make provision about risk assessments; to make provision as regards adoptions with a foreign element; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2006 c 20
Territorial extent	England and Wales, except that sections 9 to 11, 12(1) to (5) and (7), 16 and 17 also extend to Northern Ireland and the amendment or repeal of an enactment has the same extent as the enactment to which it relates.[2]
Dates
Royal assent	21 June 2006
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The precursors of the Act are:[3]

• Parental Separation: Children's Needs and Parents' Responsibilities (Cm 6273), a green paper published in July 2004
• Parental Separation: Children's Needs and Parents' Responsibilities: Next Steps (Cm 6452), published in January 2005
• The Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill, published on 2 February 2005
• The Report from the Joint Committee on the Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill, published on 12 April 2005
• The Government Reply to the Report from the Joint Committee on the Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill (Cm 6583), published on 8 June 2005