The Children and Young People’s Plan (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Children and Young People’s Plan (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and come into force on 19th February 2007.

Amendment of the Children and Young People’s Plan (England) Regulations 2005

2.  The Children and Young People’s Plan (England) Regulations 2005(1) are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 6.

3.  In regulation 2, insert the following definitions at the appropriate places—

““proprietor” has the same meaning as in section 579 of the Education Act 1996(2);”;

““school” has the same meaning as in section 4 of the Education Act 1996;”.

4.  In regulation 4(2), for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) a statement as to how the authority intend to achieve the improvements referred to in regulation 4(1), with specific reference to the following—

(i) the integration of services provided by the authority and its relevant partners to improve the well-being of children and relevant young persons;

(ii) arrangements made by the authority under section 11(2) of the Children Act 2004 (arrangements to safeguard and promote welfare); and

(iii) arrangements for early intervention and preventative action;”.

5.  In regulation 7—

(a) in paragraph (1)(g), omit “and”; and

(b) after paragraph (1)(h), insert—

“(i) the proprietor of each school in the authority’s area;

(j) the schools forum(3) for the authority’s area; and

(k) the admission forum(4) for the authority’s area.”.

6.  In regulation 9 and in its heading—

(a) for “excellent” in each place where the word occurs, substitute “four stars”;

(b) after paragraph (3) add—

“(4) Where a children’s services authority—

(a) was categorised as excellent by reason of the Local Authorities (Categorisation) (England) (No.2) Order 2005(5), and

(b) is not categorised as four stars by reason of the Local Authorities (Categorisation) (England) Order 2006(6),

regulations 3 to 8 apply to the authority so as to require the authority to publish a plan on or before 1st May 2007.”.

Transitional provisions

7.—(1) The amendments made by regulations 3 to 5 of these Regulations do not apply in relation to any plan that is published before 1st October 2007.

(2) The amendments made by regulation 6(a) of these Regulations do not have any effect in relation to a children’s services authority which, immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, was required by virtue of regulation 9(2) and (3) of the Children and Young People’s Plan (England) Regulations 2005 to publish a plan on or before 1st April 2007.

Beverley Hughes

Minister of State

Department for Education and Skills

11th January 2007