“adoption agency” means a body which may be referred to as an adoption agency by virtue of section 1 of the M1 Adoption Act 1976;

F1“appropriate children’s home” has the meaning given by section 23;

“bank holiday” means a day which is a bank holiday under the M2Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;

F2“care home” has the same meaning as in the Care Standards Act 2000;

“care order” has the meaning given by section 31(11) and also includes any order which by or under any enactment has the effect of, or is deemed to be, a care order for the purposes of this Act; and any reference to a child who is in the care of an authority is a reference to a child who is in their care by virtue of a care order;

“child” means, subject to paragraph 16 of Schedule 1, a person under the age of eighteen;

“child assessment order” has the meaning given by section 43(2);

F3“child minder” has the meaning given by section 71;

F5“children’s home” has the meaning given by section 23;

“community home” has the meaning given by section 53;

“contact order” has the meaning given by section 8(1);

“day care” F6(except in Part XA) has the same meaning as in section 18;

“disabled”, in relation to a child, has the same meaning as in section 17(11);

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“domestic premises” has the meaning given by section 71(12);

“education supervision order” has the meaning given in section 36;

“emergency protection order” means an order under section 44;

“family assistance order” has the meaning given in section 16(2);

“family proceedings” has the meaning given by section 8(3);

“functions” includes powers and duties;

“guardian of a child” means a guardian (other than a guardian of the estate of a child) appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 5;

“harm” has the same meaning as in section 31(9) and the question of whether harm is significant shall be determined in accordance with section 31(10);

F9“Health Authority” means a Health Authority established under section 8 of the M3National Health Service Act 1977;

“health service hospital” has the same meaning as in the M4National Health Service Act 1977;

“hospital” F10(except in Schedule 9A) has the same meaning as in the M5Mental Health Act 1983, except that it does not include a special hospital within the meaning of that Act;

“ill-treatment” has the same meaning as in section 31(9);

F11“income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning as in the Jobseekers Act 1995;

F12“independent hospital” has the same meaning as in the Care Standards Act 2000;

“independent school” has the same meaning as in F13the Education Act 1996;

“local authority” means, in relation to England F14. . ., the council of a county, a metropolitan district, a London Borough or the Common Council of the City of London F15in relation to Wales, the council of a county or a county borough and, in relation to Scotland, a local authority within the meaning of section 1(2) of the M6Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968;

“local authority foster parent” has the same meaning as in section 23(3);

“local education authority” has the same meaning as in F13the Education Act 1996;

“local housing authority” has the same meaning as in the M7Housing Act 1985;

F16“mental nursing home” has the same meaning as in the M8Registered Homes Act 1984;

F17“nursing home” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1984;

F18“officer of the Service” has the same meaning as in the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000;

“parental responsibility” has the meaning given in section 3;

“parental responsibility agreement” has the meaning given in sections 4(1) ;

“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;

F19“private children’s home” means a children’s home in respect of which a person is registered under Part II of the Care Standards Act 2000 which is not a community home or a voluntary home;

F20“Primary Care Trust" means a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977;

“privately fostered child” and “to foster a child privately” have the same meaning as in section 66;

“prohibited steps order” has the meaning given by section 8(1);

“protected child” has the same meaning as in Part III of the M9Adoption Act 1976;

F21“registered children’s home” has the same meaning as in section 63;

“registered pupil” has the same meaning as in F13the Education Act 1996;

“relative”, in relation to a child, means a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt (whether of the full blood or half blood or F22by marriage or civil partnership) or step-parent;

“residence order” has the meaning given by section 8(1);

F23“residential care home” has the same meaning as in the Registered Homes Act 1984 F24 and “small home" has the meaning given by section 1(4A) of that Act;

“responsible person”, in relation to a child who is the subject of a supervision order, has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of Schedule 3;

“school” has the same meaning as in F13the Education Act 1996 or, in relation to Scotland, in the M10Education (Scotland) Act 1980;

“service”, in relation to any provision made under Part III, includes any facility;

“signed”, in relation to any person, includes the making by that person of his mark;

“special educational needs” has the same meaning as in F25the Education Act 1996;

F26“Special Health Authority” means a Special Health Authority established under section 11 of the National Health Service Act 1977;

“specific issue order” has the meaning given by section 8(1);

F27“Strategic Health Authority” means a Strategic Health Authority established under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977;

“supervision order” has the meaning given by section 31(11);

“supervised child” and “supervisor”, in relation to a supervision order or an education supervision order, mean respectively the child who is (or is to be) under supervision and the person under whose supervision he is (or is to be) by virtue of the order;

“upbringing”, in relation to any child, includes the care of the child but not his maintenance;

“voluntary home” has the meaning given by section 60;

“voluntary organisation” means a body (other than a public or local authority) whose activities are not carried on for profit.

F28“Welsh family proceedings officer” has the meaning given by section 35 of the Children Act 2004.