Regulation 4 Adoption support services adviserI1
England and Wales
The local authority shall appoint a person (an “adoption support services adviser”) to carry out the function specified in paragraph (2).
The functions of the adoption support services adviser are to give advice and information, to persons who may be affected by the adoption or proposed adoption of a child, as to —
services that may be appropriate to those persons; and
how those services may be made available to them.
The local authority must only appoint a person as an adoption support services adviser if satisfied that his or her knowledge and experience of —
the process of adoption; and
the effect of the adoption of a child on persons likely to be affected by the adoption,
is sufficient for the purposes of the role of an adoption support services adviser.