Amendment of the Visits to Former Looked After Children in Detention (England) Regulations 201013

1

The Visits to Former Looked After Children in Detention (England) Regulations 201017 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 2, in the appropriate places, insert—

  • “registered manager” in relation to a secure children’s home means the person who is registered under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 200018 as a manager of that home;

  • “secure training centre” has the meaning given in section 43(1)(d) of the Prison Act 195219;

  • “young offender institution” has the meaning given in section 43(1)(aa) of the Prison Act 195220; and

  • “youth offending team” has the meaning given in section 39(1) of the Crime and Disorder Act 199821.

3

For regulation 3 substitute—

3

The circumstances prescribed for the purposes of section 23ZA(1)(b) of the 1989 Act are that the child has ceased to be a looked after child as a result of being detained, pursuant to an order of the court, in—

a

a secure children’s home,

b

a secure training centre,

c

a young offender institution, or

d

accommodation, or accommodation of a description, for the time being specified by order under section 107(1)(e) of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (youth detention accommodation for purposes of detention and training order provisions), such as the Secretary of State directs in the child’s case.