SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Part 1 of this Act: consequential amendments

Part 2Amendments relating to abolition of Local Safeguarding Children Boards

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1

Section 31 of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (supply of information concerning deaths of children) is amended as follows.

2

In subsections (2) and (4), for “appropriate Board” substitute “ appropriate authority ”.

3

In subsection (5), for “Subsection (6) applies” substitute “ Subsections (5A) and (6) apply ”.

4

After subsection (5) insert—

5A

Where the registrar's sub-district is in England, the registrar must, before the end of the required period, secure that the appropriate authority is notified—

a

of the issuing of the certificate; and

b

of the registrar's belief and the grounds for it.

5

In subsection (6)—

a

at the beginning insert “ Where the registrar's sub-district is in Wales, ”;

b

omit “Local Safeguarding Children Board in England or”.

6

In subsection (7)(c), for “subsection” substitute “ subsections (5A) and ”.

7

After subsection (8) insert—

8A

The child death review partners for each local authority area in England must—

a

make arrangements for the receipt by them of notifications under this section; and

b

publish those arrangements.

8

In subsection (9) omit “Each Local Safeguarding Children Board in England and”.

9

Subsection (10) is amended as follows.

10

In the definition of “the appropriate Board”—

a

for “Board” substitute “ authority ”;

b

in paragraph (a), for “the Local Safeguarding Children Board in England in whose area” substitute “ in relation to a register kept for a sub-district in England, the child death review partners for the local authority area within which ”;

c

in paragraph (b), at the beginning insert “ in relation to a register kept for a sub-district in Wales, ”.

11

At the appropriate place insert—

child death review partners” has the meaning given by section 16Q(2) of the Children Act 2004;

12

Omit the definition of “Local Safeguarding Children Board in England”.