PART 2INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS

Detention under Part 3 of Mental Health Act 1983; application of 2018 Act

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1

This regulation applies where—

a

a child or young person subject to a detention order and detained in hospital under Part 3 of the 1983 Act, is released from detention,

b

immediately before release, a relevant local authority was maintaining an individual development plan under section 14 of the 2018 Act for the child or young person,

c

on the release date, a local authority is responsible for the child or young person, and

d

immediately on release, the person released is not a child who is looked after by a local authority (for where a child is looked after by a local authority immediately on release, see section 35(9) and (10) of the 2018 Act).

2

The local authority mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) must maintain the individual development plan; and the plan is to be treated as maintained under section 14 of the 2018 Act for the purposes of Part 2 of that Act.