Child Care Act 1980

Powers and duties of local authorities

72 Accommodation of persons over school age in convenient community home

A local authority may provide accommodation in a community home for any person who is over compulsory school age but has not attained the age of twenty-one if the community home is provided for children who are over compulsory school age and is near the place where that person is employed or seeking employment or receiving education or training.

73 Provisions as to places of safety etc.

(1) Local authorities shall make provision in community homes provided by them or in controlled community homes for the reception and maintenance of—

(a) children removed to a place of safety under the [1933 c. 12.] Children and Young Persons Act 1933, sections 2(5), 16(3) or 28 of the [1969 c. 54.] Children and Young Persons Act 1969, section 34 of the [1976 c. 36.] Adoption Act 1976, or section 12 of the [1980 c. 6.] Foster Children Act 1980, and

(b) children detained by them in pursuance of arrangements under section 29(3) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969.

(2) Where under any of the enactments mentioned in subsection (1) above a child is removed to a place of safety, not being a community home provided by a local authority or a controlled community home and not being a hospital vested in the Secretary of State, the expenses of the child's maintenance there shall be recoverable from the local authority within whose area the child was immediately before his removal.