[F1Provision for accommodated childrenE+W
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 para. 8A and cross-heading inserted (28.3.2011 for W., 1.4.2011 for E.) by Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (c. 23), ss. 19, 44; S.I. 2010/2981, art. 4(f); S.I. 2011/949, art. 3(1)(b)
8A(1)Every local authority shall make provision for such services as they consider appropriate to be available with respect to accommodated children.E+W
(2)“Accommodated children” are those children in respect of whose accommodation the local authority have been notified under section 85 or 86.
(3)The services shall be provided with a view to promoting contact between each accommodated child and that child's family.
(4)The services may, in particular, include—
(a)advice, guidance and counselling;
(b)services necessary to enable the child to visit, or to be visited by, members of the family;
(c)assistance to enable the child and members of the family to have a holiday together.
(5)Nothing in this paragraph affects the duty imposed by paragraph 10.]