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PART IIAccommodation etc. for children in care, and foster children

Consequential modifications of ss. 13 and 19 of Children Act 1948

49Provision of accommodation and maintenance for children in care

For section 13 of the [1948 c. 43.] Children Act 1948 there shall be substituted the following section:—

13Provision of accommodation and maintenance for children in care.

(1)A local authority shall discharge their duty to provide accommodation and maintenance for a child in their care in such one of the following ways as they think fit, namely.—

(a)by boarding him out on such terms as to payment by the authority and otherwise as the authority may, subject to the provisions of this Act and regulations thereunder, determine; or

(b)by maintaining him in a community home or in any such home as is referred to in section 64 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969; or

(c)by maintaining him in a voluntary home (other than a community home) the managers of which are willing to receive him;

or by making such other arrangements as seem appropriate to the local authority.

(2)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of this section, a local authority may allow a child in their care, either for a fixed period or until the local authority otherwise determine, to be under the charge and control of a parent, guardian, relative or friend.

(3)The terms, as to payment and other matters, on which a child may be accommodated and maintained in any such home as is referred to in section 64 of that Act shall be such as the Secretary of State may from time to time determine.

50Accommodation of persons over school age in convenient community home

For section 19 of the [1948 c. 43.] Children Act 1948 there shall be substituted the following section:—

19Accommodation of persons over school age in convenient community home.

A local authority may provide accommodation in a community home for any person who is over compulsory school age but has not attained the age of twenty-one if the community home is provided for children who are over compulsory school age and is near the place where that person is employed or seeking employment or receiving education or training.