PART 3 MANAGEMENT OF A CHILD’S PLAN

Managing authority of a child’s plan for a looked after child

5.  Where a child is looked after by a local authority but that local authority is not, in terms of section 39(7) of the Act, the managing authority of any child’s plan prepared in respect of that child by virtue of Part 5 of the Act, that local authority is to be the managing authority of that child’s plan from the date on which the authority becomes aware that the child has a child’s plan, or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.