conditions of registration with Ofsted, the registration authority. The agency should also be satisfied that the agency providing the counselling possesses the necessary skills and experience, especially in cases involving particularly complex issues. Disclosure of information for the purposes of counselling: AIR 18 and ISR 16 12.8. The agency may disclose information, including protected information, to any person or body with whom it has made an arrangement to provide counselling on its behalf. The Adopted Children and Adoption Contact Registers 12.9. An adoption order gives a child a new identity (although there is no obligation for the child to be known by a new name) and the entry made by the Registrar General for England and Wales in the Adopted Children Register will be evidence of that identity and the legal parenthood of the adoptive parents. A certified copy of an entry in the Adopted Children Register (adoption certificate) replaces the birth certificate for adopted people. 12.10. The Adopted Children Register shows the link between the pre- and post-adoption identity of an adopted person. This register is not accessible to public inspection, and information from it can only be disclosed in the circumstances set out in section 79 of the Act, or, for those adopted before 30 December 2005, Schedule 2 of the Act. 12.11. The Registrar General may make an entry in the Adopted Children Register where a child has been adopted under a Convention adoption or an overseas adoption, provided he has sufficient particulars, and provided that the adoptive parent (or parents in the case of a joint adoption) is at the time of the adoption habitually 227 resident in England or Wales. See Schedule 1, paragraph 3 to the Act and regulation 3 of the Adopted Children and Contact Re