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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.”
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