Adoption Bill ‘ignores tracing rights’

THE Adoption Bill ignores the information and tracing rights of more than 42,000 adopted people and their families, a new coalition of adoption and children’s rights groups has claimed.

The coalition is made of up of the Adoption Rights Alliance, Barnardos, Adoption Loss-Natural Parents Network of Ireland, Know My Own and the Council of Irish Adoption Agencies.

The new grouping criticised the bill as being focused almost exclusively on inter-country adoption, while the information and tracing rights of adopted people have been ignored.