5 Adoption support services: personal budgets

5  Adoption support services: personal budgets

In Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (the Adoption Service) after section 4 insert—

“4A Adoption support services: personal budgets

(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     after carrying out an assessment under section 4, a local authority in England decide to provide any adoption support services to a person (“the recipient”), and

(b)     the recipient is an adopted person or the parent of an adopted person.

(2)     The local authority must prepare a personal budget for the recipient if asked to do so by the recipient or (in prescribed circumstances) a person of a prescribed description.

(3)     The authority prepare a “personal budget” for the

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