Regulation 17 Requirement to prepare a written report ...F5I1

the information about the child and the child’s family as specified in Parts 1, 3 and 4 of Schedule 1;

a summary, written by the agency’s medical adviser, of the child’s state of health, the child’s health history and any need for health care which might arise in the future;

the wishes and feelings of the child regarding the matters set out in regulation 13(1)(c);

the wishes and feelings of the child’s parent or guardian, and where regulation 14(2) applies, the child’s father F1or woman who is a parent of the child by virtue of section 43 of the 2008 Act, and any other person the agency considers relevant, regarding the matters set out in regulation 14(1)(c);

the views of the agency about the child’s need for contact with the child’s parent or guardian or other relative or with any other person the agency considers relevant (including the child’s father or woman who is a parent of the child by virtue of section 43 of the 2008 Act where regulation 14(2) applies) and the arrangements the agency proposes to make for allowing any person contact with the child;

an assessment of the child’s emotional and behavioural development and any related needs;

an assessment of the parenting capacity of the child’s parent or guardian, and if regulation 14(2) applies, the child’s father or woman who is a parent of the child by virtue of section 43 of the 2008 Act;

a chronology of the decisions and actions taken by the agency with respect to the child;

an analysis of the options for the future care of the child which have been considered by the agency and why placement for adoption is considered the preferred option; and

any other information which the agency considers relevant.

the adoption agency is a local authority and is considering whether the child ought to be placed for adoption, and

either paragraph (2A) or (2B) applies,

the child is placed for adoption by the adoption agency or is being provided with accommodation by the local authority;

no adoption agency is authorised to place the child for adoption, and

the child has no parent or guardian, or the agency consider that the conditions in section 31(2) of the 1989 Act are met in relation to the child.

an application has been made, and has not been disposed of, on which a care order might be made in respect of the child, or

the child is subject to a care order and the adoption agency are not authorised to place the child for adoption.

the written report referred to in regulation 17(1),

the written report on the state of the child’s health referred to in regulation 15(2)(b), unless the adoption agency has received advice from the medical adviser that such a report is unnecessary, and

the information relating to the health of the child’s F4birth parents.