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<p>Local authorities have a legal duty to provide a comprehensive adoption service.</p><p>This
specifically includes 'Assistance, including mediation services, in relation to arrangements
for contact between an adoptive child and a natural parent, natural sibling, former
guardian or a related person of the adoptive child.'</p><p>As set out in our ‘Adoption
Strategy: achieving excellence everywhere’, the department will be working with Regional
Adoption Agencies to develop and trial what good practice around contact looks like,
with a view to setting national standards in this area. This will include working
closely with birth parents and those with lived experience.</p>
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