The Children (Leaving Care) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002

Amendment of the Children (Leaving Care) (Wales) Regulations 2001

2.  The Children (Leaving Care) (Wales) Regulations 2001(1) are amended as follows—

(a) in Regulation 3 (Eligible children), paragraph (2)(b) is omitted,

(b) in Regulation 4 (Relevant children)—

(i) for paragraph (4) there is substituted—

“(4) Subject to paragraph (6), any child who has lived with a person falling within section 23(4) of the Act (“a family placement”) for a continuous period of six months or more is not to be a relevant child despite falling within section 23A(2).”;

(ii) after paragraph (5) there is inserted—

“(6) Where

(a) a family placement within the meaning of paragraph (4) breaks down and the child ceases to live with the person concerned, and

(b) six months have elapsed since that family placement began,

the child is to be treated as a relevant child.”.

(1)

S.I. 2001/2189.