184.2 to be followed in deciding whether a child should be placed in alternative care, and if so, what form of alternative care to choose, with the primary consideration being the best interests and participation of the child in the decision that is made; 184.3 for the annual review of all placements; and 184.4 on family support to be provided to parents or extended family members of vulnerable children, including children in child-headed households. 185. Adoptions are very poorly regulated, largely because of high informal fees and cumbersome adoption procedures. In addition, the country has not yet acceded to the Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoptions, with the results that InterCountry adoptions are also unregulated and the Adoption Act is outdated and out of alignment with international standards. There are also reported cases of adoptions being approved by courts despite non-compliance with conditions of the adoptions Act; an occurrence which is aggravated by the fact that there are no adoption guidelines governing the process. 186. The GoSL has responded to these inadequacies with the development of an adoption White Paper – Government’s White Paper on the Findings and Recommendations of the Justice Showers Commission of Inquiry on the HANCI-MAPS Adoption – in 2012. In terms of the White Paper the GoSL undertook to take appropriate measures to review the Adoption Act and accede to the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption of 1993. The Alternative Care policy states that the Adoption Act is being reviewed and systems are being put in place to enable the country to sign the Hague Convention. 187. The review of the Act will action the recommendations in the White Paper and ensure that: 52  187.1 application for leave to take an adopted child out of Sierra Leone made to the High Court is to be granted only on cause shown to the satisfaction of the Court; 187.2 adequate provision be made to ensure that the safeguards provided in the Adoption Act are respected and honored in cases where inter-country adoption applications are made and that such applications conform with the procedural requirements provided for in the Hague Convention of 1993, for inter-country Adoption; 187.3 the Government enter into bi-lateral or multi-lateral arrangements with other Governments who are signatories to the Convention to enhance collaboration with the competent authorities of those States; 187.4 Government takes all appropriate measures through public bodies to provide adequate information on the law regulating adoption in Sierra Leone, to the various communities in the country; 187.5 adequate preventive provision is made in the new Adoption Bill to act as deterrent for those likely to contravene the adoption law; Government of the Republic of Sierra Leone Initial Report on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 2002-2014