77Accommodation for children in police protection or detention or on remand etc
(1)A local authority must make provision for the reception and accommodation of children who are removed or kept away from home under Part 5 of the Children Act 1989.
(2)A local authority must receive, and provide accommodation for, children—
(a)in police protection whom it is requested to receive under section 46(3)(f) of the Children Act 1989;
(b)whom it is requested to receive under section 38(6) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;
(c)with respect to whom it is the designated authority and who are—
(i)remanded to accommodation provided by or on behalf of a local authority by virtue of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 or paragraph 6 of Schedule 8 to the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (breach etc of referral orders and reparation orders);
(ii)remanded to accommodation provided by or on behalf of a local authority by virtue of paragraph 21 of Schedule 2 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (breach etc of youth rehabilitation orders);
(iii)remanded to accommodation provided by or on behalf of a local authority by virtue of paragraph 10 of the Schedule to the Street Offences Act 1959 (breach of orders under section 1(2A) of that Act);
(iv)the subject of a youth rehabilitation order imposing a local authority residence requirement or a youth rehabilitation order with fostering.
(3)In subsection (2), the following terms have the same meanings as in Part 1 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (see section 7 of that Act)—
“local authority residence requirement”;
“youth rehabilitation order”;
“youth rehabilitation order with fostering”.
(4)Subsection (5) applies where—
(a) a child has been—
(i)removed under Part 5 of the Children Act 1989, or
(ii)detained under section 38 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, and
(b)the child is not being provided with accommodation—
(i)by a local authority, or
(ii)in a hospital vested in the Welsh Ministers, an NHS Trust, an NHS Foundation Trust or the Secretary of State, or otherwise made available pursuant to arrangements made by a Local Health Board, an NHS Trust, an NHS Foundation Trust, the Welsh Ministers, the Secretary of State, the National Health Service Commissioning Board or a clinical commissioning group.
(5)Any reasonable expenses of accommodating the child are recoverable from the local authority in whose area the child is ordinarily resident.