Part IIIF5SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES PROVIDED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND
F4 Personal advisers and pathway plans
Ss. 23D, 23E and cross-heading inserted (1.10.2001) by 2000 c. 35, s. 3; S.I. 2001/2191, art. 2; S.I. 2001/2878, art. 2
F123D Personal advisers.
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The F6Secretary of State may by regulations require local authorities to appoint a personal adviser for children or young persons of a prescribed description who have reached the age of sixteen but not the age of F2twenty-five who are not—
a
children who are relevant children for the purposes of section 23A;
b
the young persons referred to in section 23C; or
c
the children referred to in paragraph 19C of Schedule 2.F3; or
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persons to whom section 23CA applies.
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Personal advisers appointed under or by virtue of this Part shall (in addition to any other functions) have such functions as the F7Secretary of State prescribes.
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Where a local authority in England ceases to be under a duty to provide a personal adviser for a person under any provision of this Part, that does not affect any other duty under this Part to provide a personal adviser for the person.
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Where a local authority in England has more than one duty under this Part to provide a personal adviser for a person, each duty is discharged by the provision of the same personal adviser (the local authority are not required to provide more than one personal adviser for the person).
Pt. 3 heading substituted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 57(2)