Part 6Parental responsibility for children awaiting adoption

# Part 6 Parental responsibility for children awaiting adoption Part 6 Parental responsibility for children awaiting adoption **ch 4, pt 6, hdg:** Am 2006 No 112, Sch 2 \[15\]. Note— This Part provides for the parental responsibility for children between the period when consent to adoption is given and an adoption order made. Parental responsibility is given to the Secretary who has power to decide, for example, whether the child should be placed with authorised carers or the proposed adoptive parents, in this period. **ch 4, pt 6, note:** Am 2006 No 112, Sch 2 \[16\]–\[18\]; 2016 No 43, Sch 1 \[1\].