ADOPTION LAWS: CHALLENGES CONCERNING PROCEDURE FROM HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE the process becomes exhausting and tiring for PAPs while waiting for the photographs of child for months. Sometimes, the staff responsible for preparing child study reports are not equipped with necessary knowledge and skills and, therefore, it lacks necessary information that must be included concerning the child, especially in case of special needs category. The author feels that along with detailed report highlighting problems or deficiencies or disability that the child is facing, provisions should be made to ensure that prescriptions by medical practitioners must also be attached with that report. It would help PAPs to prepare themselves beforehand and meetings should also be arranged with the respective doctor, who has been treating such child or prepared the report, if requested. Post adoption Support and Follow-ups: When the adoption is in-country, the voluntary coordination committees, various child rights activists and the adoption agency may have an access to find out the post adoption status of the child in his/her foster home. In this way, child exploitation, the securities of health and nutrition, mental development of the child can be taken care of, but when the child is given for inter-country adoption, post adoption follow-ups become increasingly difficult. Even though CARA guidelines outline the role of the Indian diplomatic missions, foreign accredited agencies and professional social workers in protecting a child from post adoption maltreatment, it has virtually not helped anyone. Even in Seva Bharti Matruchhaya, Durg vs XXX,46 it has been held that though it has been made mandatory in Regulation 19(1) of Adoption Regulations, 2017, that the authorised foreign adoption agency or the Central Authority or Indian Diplomatic Mission or Government Department has to report the progress of the adopted child for two years from his or her arrival, it is also necessary that in supplement to that, a welfare report and detailed educational report of adopted child shall also be provided every six months till that child becomes major. The child’s age at adoption has significant implications on the development of executive functioning, language and the sensory processing and attention and combined with long-term placement in an institution can also increase the risks of poor emotional control and similarly increase both internalising and externalising behavioural problems; therefore, post adoption counselling for children especially aged 12 years or above must be made mandatory.47 Even the Committee has recommended mandatory post adoption follow46 47 Criminal Revision No.97 of 2018 J. Masson, (2001). “Inter-country adoption: a global problem or a global solution,” Journal of International Affairs, 55(1), 141-166. 85