Selection to meet anticipated future need
88 Selection to meet anticipated future need
From time to time, the chief executive must select persons from the expression of interest register to be assessed for suitability to be an adoptive parent.
The purpose of selections under this section is to ensure the likely future need for adoptive parents identified in planning under division 1 may be met.
The chief executive must select appropriate numbers of persons, with appropriate profiles, according to the likely need relating to local adoptions and the likely need relating to intercountry adoptions for each relevant country.
The chief executive must be satisfied the persons selected are, based on their profiles, likely to meet the anticipated placement needs of children to be adopted.
Note—
The placement needs of children to be adopted by an intercountry adoption are determined having regard to matters that include the requirements of the competent authority for the country that apply to prospective adoptive parents of children from the country. See schedule 3, definition placement needs, paragraph (c).
Subject to subsection (4), the chief executive may, in deciding whom to select, give priority to—
a person with the same ethnic background as children to be adopted; or
a person who has previously adopted a child with similar placement needs as children to be adopted; or
a person with the earliest relevant expression of interest.
In this section—
relevant expression of interest, for a person, means—
if the person’s name has previously been removed from the expression of interest register under section 79(1)(a), the expression of interest for which the person’s name had been entered in the register; or
otherwise, the person’s current expression of interest.
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