 information from the court is unlikely to have access to counselling unless this is offered by an adoption agency or an adoption support agency. Adoption agency responsible for keeping information: AIR 3 11.6. AIR 3 clarifies to which adoption agency the general duty to keep certain information in relation to a person’s adoption will apply. Generally, the case record for the adopted person, established under Part 3 of the Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005 (AAR), will continue to be kept by the adoption agency that placed the child for adoption. Where that agency has ceased to operate or exist, the agency to which the case records are transferred must keep the information. 208 Information to be kept about a person’s adoption: AIR 4 11.7. Where an adoption order has been made by the court, AIR 4 specifies the information that the adoption agency must continue to keep on the child’s adoption case record. There may be some transitional cases where the child’s case record was established under the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983 but where the adoption order was made after 30 December 2005, the agency is required to keep the information prescribed by AIR 4. This is referred to as “section 56 information” which encompasses both identifying information and background information about the persons involved in the adoption. 11.8. Identifying information is “information which, whether taken on its own or together with other information disclosed by an adoption agency, identifies the person or enables the person to be identified” (see section 57(4) of the Act). Identifying information kept by the agency will be wide-ranging and includes:  information about the adopted person, their birth parents and other birth relatives, the adoptive parents and others, such as former carers