extent E W + PART 1E+WSOCIAL CARE

extent E W + CHAPTER 2E+WMISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS IN RELATION TO SOCIAL CARE SERVICES, SOCIAL CARE WORKERS AND LOCAL AUTHORITY SOCIAL CARE FUNCTIONS

extent E W + Local authority social services functionsE+W

21extent E W + Accommodation of childrenE+W

section 21 1 + (1)Subsections (2) and (3) amend the 2014 Act to restrict—

section 21 1 a + (a)the ability of a person named in a child arrangements order to prevent someone with parental responsibility for a child without parents, or who is lost or abandoned, from objecting to the child being looked after in local authority accommodation or removing them from such accommodation;

section 21 1 b + (b)the requirement for a local authority to place a child who it is looking after with a person named in a child arrangements order,

to a person named in the child arrangements order as someone with whom the child is to live, but not any other person so named.

section 21 2 + (2)In section 76(6) of the 2014 Act, for paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a)named in a child arrangements order (that is in force) as a person with whom the child is to live,”.

section 21 3 + (3)In section 81(3) of the 2014 Act, in paragraph (c), for the words from “a person” to the end substitute “named in the child arrangements order as a person with whom the child was to live”.