Karen Lennon, Park Square BarristersOliver Latham, Park Square BarristersThe provisions of ss 26(2)(b), (3) and (4), alongside s 27(1)(a) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002, are well established in the statute book. They will be well known to practitioners and judges, in that they provide the family court with the power to order contact between a child placed for adoption and a named person. The period during which these orders are alive is, however, time limited: they apply during the period between the making of a placement for adoption order and the making of a formal adoption order.