PART 6E+WLOOKED AFTER AND ACCOMMODATED CHILDREN

Accommodation dutiesE+W

[F175DDuty to secure accommodation: reportingE+W

In relation to each financial year for which an annual sufficiency plan has been made under section 75A, an annual report prepared by a local authority under section 144A must set out—

(a)how steps taken by the local authority in that financial year have increased (or are expected to increase) the amount of accommodation available to the authority that meets the requirements of paragraphs (a) to (b) of section 75(1);

(b)the number of applications the local authority made in that financial year for approval to place children in a supplementary placement in accordance with section 81B;

(c)the reasons for any difference between the number of applications provided under paragraph (b) and the number of applications the local authority had estimated under section 75A(3)(d)(i) it would make during the year.]

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