No versions valid at: 01/04/2007
Point in time view as at 01/04/2007. This version of this provision is not valid for this point in time.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Children Act 2004, Section 12A.
Valid from 26/02/2010
(1)Arrangements made by a children's services authority in England under section 10 must include arrangements for the establishment of a Children's Trust Board for their area.
(2)A Children's Trust Board must include a representative of each of the following—
(a)the establishing authority;
(b)each of the establishing authority's relevant partners (subject to subsection (4)).
(3)A Children's Trust Board may also include any other persons or bodies that the establishing authority, after consulting each of their relevant partners, think appropriate.
(4)A Children's Trust Board need not include any of the establishing authority's relevant partners who are of a description prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
(5)Subsection (2) does not require a Children's Trust Board to include a separate representative for each of the persons or bodies mentioned in subsection (2)(a) and (b).
(6)Where two or more children's services authorities jointly make arrangements under section 10 for the establishment of a Children's Trust Board, references in sections 12B and 17 to the area of the authority that established the Board are to be read as references to an area consisting of the combined areas of those authorities.
(7)For the purposes of this section and sections 12B and 12C—
(a)“the establishing authority”, in relation to a Children's Trust Board, is the children's services authority that establishes the Board;
(b)a person or body is a “relevant partner” of a children's services authority if it is a relevant partner of the authority for the purposes of section 10.
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