{"id":5077,"date":"2015-04-26T19:24:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T19:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2015-04-26T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T19:24:04","slug":"long-term-foster-kids-now-eligible-for-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/long-term-foster-kids-now-eligible-for-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-term foster kids now eligible for adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/irish-news\/courts\/longterm-foster-kids-now-eligible-for-adoption-31170279.html?utm_source=indoshare&amp;utm_medium=socialoremail&amp;utm_campaign=indoshare\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.independent.ie<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Eilish O&#8217;Regan and Tim Healy<br \/>\nPUBLISHED<br \/>\n25\/04\/2015 | 02:30SHARE<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of young people in long-term foster care will be eligible for adoption in the wake of the Supreme Court&#8217;s refusal to order a re-running of the 2012 children&#8217;s referendum.<\/p>\n<p>Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, Geoffrey Shannon, said the draft heads of the legislation covering these possible adoptions was published at the time of the referendum and can be progressed. &#8222;The Supreme Court ruling removes the roadblock to these children being adopted. It is a very positive day for children,&#8220; he said<!--more--><br \/>\nTusla, the Child and Family Agency, said: &#8222;Based on the age profile and care status of the children in care, 2,000 children could become eligible for adoption.&#8220;<br \/>\nThe seven-judge court unanimously found, in a challenge brought by a Dublin woman, she had failed to prove an unconstitutional government information campaign &#8222;materially affected&#8220; the &#8218;Yes&#8216; outcome in the referendum.<br \/>\nIrish Independent<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.independent.ie Eilish O&#8217;Regan and Tim Healy PUBLISHED 25\/04\/2015 | 02:30SHARE Hundreds of young people in long-term foster care will be eligible for adoption in the wake of the Supreme Court&#8217;s refusal to order a re-running of the 2012 children&#8217;s referendum. Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, Geoffrey Shannon, said the draft heads of the legislation covering&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/long-term-foster-kids-now-eligible-for-adoption\/\" title=\"Read Long-term foster kids now eligible for adoption\">Weiter &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions\/5079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}