sec.127Adoptive parenting

### sec.127 Adoptive parenting The chief executive must have regard to the person’s attitudes to, and understanding of, the issues relevant to adoptive parenting, including— issues about informing a child of the child’s adoption; and the significance to an adopted child of the child’s birth parents and their families; and the importance of developing and maintaining relationships with an adopted child’s birth parents and their families, through an open adoption arrangement, so far as this is possible and in the child’s best interests. s 127 amd 2016 No. 57 s 67 sch 1 - (a) issues about informing a child of the child’s adoption; and - (b) the significance to an adopted child of the child’s birth parents and their families; and - (c) the importance of developing and maintaining relationships with an adopted child’s birth parents and their families, through an open adoption arrangement, so far as this is possible and in the child’s best interests.