PART IIAccommodation etc. for children in care, and foster children
Consequential modifications of ss. 13 and 19 of Children Act 1948
50Accommodation of persons over school age in convenient community home
For section 19 of the M1Children 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.