Case No. LV21C01426

(Reg 46):(1)This paragraph applies where an adoption agency decides that a child should be placed for adoption.(2)Where paragraph (1) applies and subject to paragraph (3), the adoption agency must consider what arrangements it should make for allowing any person contact with the child once the agency is authorised to place the child for adoption (“the contact arrangements”).(3)The adoption agency must— (a)take into account the wishes and feelings of the parent or guardian of the child and, where regulation 14(3) applies and the agency considers it is appropriate, the father of the child; (b)take into account any advice given by the adoption panel in accordance with regulation 18(3); and (c)have regard to the considerations set out in section 1(2) and (4) of the Act,