PART 6LOOKED AFTER AND ACCOMMODATED CHILDREN
Accommodation duties
F175BDuty to secure accommodation: procedure for approval of sufficiency plan
(1)
Before publishing its annual sufficiency plan, a local authority must—
(a)
prepare a draft of the plan, and
(b)
submit the draft to the Welsh Ministers for their approval.
(2)
The first draft plan must be submitted to the Welsh Ministers no later than 4 months before the beginning of the financial year to which it relates.
(3)
Subsequent draft plans must be submitted to the Welsh Ministers no later than 2 months before the beginning of the financial year to which they relate.
(4)
Where the Welsh Ministers approve a draft of an annual sufficiency plan they must notify the local authority of their decision.