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.