Legislation update

Published 24th Mar 2010 by Admin

Community Care Inform's legal expert, Ed Mitchell, has provided the latest legislation update for your attention. Please find the details below.

Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

We have added a guide to this Act, to the extent that it is of particular interest to persons working in child social care. The guide explains these aspects of the 2009 Act:

- the new statutory scheme about the education of detained children and young people, including children with statements of SEN;

- extended membership of, and new duties for, English Local Safeguarding Children Boards;

- the creation of Children's Trust Boards in England to oversee partnership working in each local authority area;

- the Secretary of State's new statutory power to set safeguarding targets for English local authorities;

- local authorities' new obligations to have 'Sure Start Children's Centres'.

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Published 24th Mar 2010

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