PART 1

SOCIAL CARE
CHAPTER 2

MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS IN RELATION TO SOCIAL CARE SERVICES, SOCIAL CARE WORKERS AND LOCAL AUTHORITY SOCIAL CARE FUNCTIONS

Local authority social services functions

Accommodation of children
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1
Subsections (2) and (3) amend the 2014 Act to restrict—
a
the ability of a person named in a child arrangements order to prevent someone with parental responsibility for a child without parents, or who is lost or abandoned, from objecting to the child being looked after in local authority accommodation or removing them from such accommodation;
b
the requirement for a local authority to place a child who it is looking after with a person named in a child arrangements order,
to a person named in the child arrangements order as someone with whom the child is to live, but not any other person so named.
2
In section 76(6) of the 2014 Act, for paragraph (a) substitute—
a
named in a child arrangements order (that is in force) as a person with whom the child is to live,
.
3
In section 81(3) of the 2014 Act, in paragraph (c), for the words from “a person” to the end substitute “named in the child arrangements order as a person with whom the child was to live”.