Adoption
Adoption Focus
Adoption is a way of providing a new family for children who cannot be brought up by their own parents.
It's a legal procedure in which all the parental responsibility is transferred to the adopters.
Once an adoption order has been granted it can't be reversed except in extremely rare circumstances.
An adopted child becomes a full member of the new family, usually taking the family's name.
When the focus is selected the Adoption Application Enquiry page is opened. This allows you to search for an applicant by entering two or more characters of a name and enter any other search criteria in the fields available on the Enquiry page.
Adoption Application Enquiry
The Adoption Enquiry page is opened when the Adoption Focus is selected. It allows you to search for an applicant by entering two or more characters of a name and any other known search informationsearch information.
This panel has the following fields into which search criteria can be entered: Family Name of the Applicant, Given Name, Start and End Dates, StatusStatus and Application Reference Number.
Clicking Search will return a list of Applicants matching the criteria. Details of each Applicant can be seen in the lower panel by clicking the Open icon and then the up arrow and down arrow icons to move to the previous or next record.
You may expand or collapse a panel by clicking the icon (the arrows on the icon will invert appropriate to the next available action).
Double clicking on an item in the list or clicking Open in New Window will open the Adoption Application Definition form in a new scrollable window. In all cases a Wizard is available allowing you to move through each panel by clicking Previous or Next instead of scrolling down the page. To return to a scrollable form click Finish or click the Wizard icon again.
To add an Applicant click the New icon. This will open a blank form in which to enter new Adoption Application details, although in practice the Application will automatically be derived from the Initial Contact.
To remove an adoption application, highlight a record in the browse and click the Delete button to open the Delete Adoption Application window. One checks to see if there are any dependent records. The dependent records display on the Delete Adoption Application screen.
Click on the hyperlink in the Event Date column to open the record. Review the record and if no longer required, click the Delete button. One deletes the record and returns you to the Delete Application screen. The deleted record will be displayed on screen until you click the Refresh button.
If there are no dependent records, the following message displays:
There are no dependent event types for the selected adoption application.
Click the Delete button to display the following message:
The system has identified that an enquiry exists for this application.
Would you like to delete this as well?
Click the Yes button to delete the adoption application.
Adoption Case Notes and Adoption Chronology can be accessed from the Links panel.