Part III Local Authority Support for Children and Families
F6 Personal advisers and pathway plans
24CF1Information.
1
Where it appears to a local authority that a person—
a
with whom they are under a duty to keep in touch under section 23B, 23C or 24; or
b
whom they have been advising and befriending under section 24A; or
c
to whom they have been giving assistance under section 24B,
proposes to live, or is living, in the area of another local authority, they must inform that other authority.
2
Where a child who is accommodated—
C1a
by a voluntary organisation or in a private children’s home;
b
C1c
in any care home or independent hospital or any accommodation provided by a National Health Service trust F4or an NHS foundation trust ,
ceases to be so accommodated, after reaching the age of sixteen, the organisation, authority or (as the case may be) person carrying on the home shall inform the local authority within whose area the child proposes to live.
3
Subsection (2) only applies, by virtue of paragraph (b) or (c), if the accommodation has been provided for a consecutive period of at least three months.
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In a case where a child was accommodated by a local authority in the exercise of education functions, subsection (2) applies only if the local authority who accommodated the child are different from the local authority within whose area the child proposes to live.
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