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Children Act 2004

Section 55: Social services committees

230.This section removes the requirement on local authorities in England and Wales not operating executive arrangements under the Local Government Act 2000, to establish a social services committee by repealing section 2 of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970, and related provisions of that Act (subsection (1)). The requirement in England to have a director of children’s services means that there can no longer be single ‘social services committees’. All references in law to social service committees are therefore repealed. In addition, local authorities in England will no longer have social services departments. Therefore references to such departments are removed.

231.Subsections (2) to (5) make amendments to Schedule 1 to that Act, section 63(8)(a) of the Health Services and Public Health Act, paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and section 102 of the Local Government Act 2000, which are consequential to this repeal.

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