21 Provision of accommodation for children in police protection or detention or on remand, etc.E+W
(1)Every local authority shall make provision for the reception and accommodation of children who are removed or kept away from home under Part V.
(2)Every local authority shall receive, and provide accommodation for, children—
(a)in police protection whom they are requested to receive under section 46(3)(f);
(b)whom they are requested to receive under section 38(6) of the M1Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;
(c)who are—
(i)on remand under [F1F2. . . section] 23(1) of the M2Children and Young Persons Act 1969; F2. . .
[F3(ia)remanded to accommodation provided by or on behalf of a local authority by virtue of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 or paragraph 6 of Schedule 8 to the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (breach etc. of referral orders and reparation orders);]
[F4(ii)remanded to accommodation provided by or on behalf of a local authority by virtue of paragraph 21 of Schedule 2 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (breach etc. of youth rehabilitation orders); or]
[F5(iii)the subject of a youth rehabilitation order imposing a local authority residence requirement or a youth rehabilitation order with fostering,]
and with respect to whom they are the designated authority.
[F6(2A)In subsection (2)(c)(iii), the following terms have the same meanings as in Part 1 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (see section 7 of that Act)—
“local authority residence requirement”;
“youth rehabilitation order”;
“youth rehabilitation order with fostering”.]
(3)Where a child has been—
(a)removed under Part V; or
(b)detained under section 38 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984,
and he is not being provided with accommodation by a local authority or in a hospital vested in the Secretary of State [F7“, the Welsh Ministers][F8or a Primary Care Trust,][F9or otherwise made available pursuant to arrangements made by a [F10Health Authority]][F11Local Health Board][ or a Primary Care Trust], any reasonable expenses of accommodating him shall be recoverable from the local authority in whose area he is ordinarily resident.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 21(2)(c)(i) substituted (25.8.2000) by 2000 c. 6, ss. 165, 168(1), Sch. 9 para. 126(a)
F2Words in s. 21(2)(c)(i) and word at the end of sub-paragraph (i) repealed (30.11.2009) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), ss. 6, 149, 153, Sch. 4 para. 34(2)(a), Sch. 28 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 27 paras. 1, 5); S.I. 2009/3074, art. 2(p)(v)(u)(xi)
F3S. 21(2)(c)(ia) inserted (30.11.2009) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), ss. 6, 153, Sch. 4 para. 105 (with Sch. 27 paras. 1, 5); S.I. 2009/3074, art. 2(p)(v)
F4S. 21(2)(c)(ii)(iii) substituted (30.11.2009) for s. 21(2)(c)(ii) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), ss. 6, 153, Sch. 4 para. 34(2)(b) (with Sch. 27 paras. 1, 5); S.I. 2009/3074, art. 2(p)(v)
F5S. 21(2)(c)(ii)(iii) substituted (30.11.2009) for s. 21(2)(c)(ii) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), ss. 6, 153, Sch. 4 para. 34(2)(b) (with Sch. 27 paras. 1, 5); S.I. 2009/3074, art. 2(p)(v)
F6S. 21(2A) inserted (30.11.2009) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), ss. 6, 153, Sch. 4 para. 34(3) (with Sch. 27 paras. 1, 5); S.I. 2009/3074, art. 2(p)(v)
F7Words in s. 21(3) inserted (13.11.2008) by Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (c. 23), ss. 39, 44, Sch. 3 para. 5
F8Words in s. 21(3) inserted (8.2.2000) by S.I. 2000/90, art. 3(1), Sch.1 para. 24(3)(a)(b)
F9Words inserted by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 66(1), Sch. 9 para. 36(1)
F10Words in s. 21(3) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 1(2), 2(1)(3), Sch. 1, Pt. III, para. 118(3) (with Sch. 2 para. 6)
F11Words in s. 21(3) substituted (1.4.2007) by The References to Health Authorities Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/961), arts. 2, 3 {Sch. para. 20(2)(a)}
Commencement Information
I1S. 21 in force at 14.10.1991 see s. 108(2)(3) and S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)
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