Part IIIF15SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES PROVIDED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND

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Provision of accommodation for children

I121 Provision of accommodation for children in police protection or detention or on remand, etc.

1

Every local authority shall make provision for the reception and accommodation of children who are removed or kept away from home under Part V.

2

Every local authority shall receive, and provide accommodation for, children—

a

in police protection whom they are requested to receive under section 46(3)(f);

b

whom they are requested to receive under section 38(6) of the M1Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;

c

who are—

F11i

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F1ia

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);

F2ii

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); F3 . . .

F4iia

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);

F5iii

the subject of a youth rehabilitation order imposing a local authority residence requirement or a youth rehabilitation order with fostering,

and with respect to whom they are the designated authority.

F62A

In subsection (2)(c)(iii), 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”.

3

Where a child has been—

a

removed under Part V; or

b

detained under section 38 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984,

and he is not being provided with accommodation by a local authority F16or by a local authority in Wales or in a hospital vested in theF12Secretary of State orF7, the Welsh MinistersF13...,F8or otherwise made available pursuant to arrangements made by F14the Secretary of State, the National Health Service Commissioning Board or a clinical commissioning group under the National Health Service Act 2006 or a F9Health AuthorityF10Local Health BoardF13..., any reasonable expenses of accommodating him shall be recoverable from the local authority F17, or local authority in Wales, in whose area he is ordinarily resident.