The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010

Preparation and content of the care plan E+W

5.— [F1 (1)]  The care plan must include a record of the following information—

(a) the long term plan for C's upbringing (“the plan for permanence”),

(b) the arrangements made by the responsible authority to meet C's needs in relation to—

(i) health, including the information set out in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 (“the health plan”),

(ii) education and training, including, so far as reasonably practicable, the information set out in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 (“the personal education plan”),

(iii) emotional and behavioural development,

(iv) identity, with particular regard to C's religious persuasion, racial origin and cultural and linguistic background,

(v) family and social relationships and in particular the information set out in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1,

(vi) social presentation, and

(vii) self-care skills,

(c) except in a case where C is in the care of the responsible authority but is not provided with accommodation by them by any of the means specified in section 22C, the placement plan [F2 once prepared],

(d) the name of the IRO,

(e) details of the wishes and feelings of the persons listed in section 22(4) M1 about the arrangements referred to in sub-paragraph (b) and the placement plan [F3 , once this has been prepared] that have been ascertained and considered in accordance with section 22(4) and (5) and the wishes and feelings of those persons in relation to any change, or proposed change, to the care plan, and

[F4 (f) where C is—

(i) a victim, or there is reason to believe C may be a victim, of trafficking in human beings within the meaning of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings,

(ii) an unaccompanied asylum seeking child within the meaning of the Immigration Rules and has applied, or has indicated to the responsible authority an intention to apply, for asylum and has not been granted indefinite leave to remain,

that fact.]

[F4 (2) In this regulation “Immigration Rules” means the rules for the time being laid down by the Secretary of State as mentioned in section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 5 renumbered as reg. 5(1) (18.8.2014) by The Care Planning and Care Leavers (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1917), regs. 1, 3(1)

F2 Words in reg. 5(1)(c) inserted (temp.) (24.4.2020) by The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/445), regs. 1(2), 8(3)(a) (with Pts. 12, 13)

F3 Words in reg. 5(1)(e) inserted (temp.) (24.4.2020) by The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/445), regs. 1(2), 8(3)(b) (with Pts. 12, 13)

F4 Reg. 5(1)(f)(2) inserted (18.8.2014) by The Care Planning and Care Leavers (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1917), regs. 1, 3(2)

Marginal Citations

M1 The persons listed in that section are: (a) C, (b) any parent of C's and any person who is not C's parent but who has parental responsibility for C, and (c) any other person whose wishes and feelings the responsible authority consider to be relevant.