Part 1Children

CHAPTER 1Looked after children

Care and adoption proceedings in England and Wales

I18Care orders: permanence provisions

In section 31 of the Children Act 1989 (care and supervision orders), for subsection (3B) substitute—

3B

For the purposes of subsection (3A), the permanence provisions of a section 31A plan are—

a

such of the plan's provisions setting out the long-term plan for the upbringing of the child concerned as provide for any of the following—

i

the child to live with any parent of the child's or with any other member of, or any friend of, the child's family;

ii

adoption;

iii

long-term care not within sub-paragraph (i) or (ii);

b

such of the plan's provisions as set out any of the following—

i

the impact on the child concerned of any harm that he or she suffered or was likely to suffer;

ii

the current and future needs of the child (including needs arising out of that impact);

iii

the way in which the long-term plan for the upbringing of the child would meet those current and future needs.