Children and Families Bill

Session 2012 - 13
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Children and Families Bill

Children and Families Bill

[AS AMENDED IN PUBLIC BILL COMMITTEE]

Contents
Part 1
Adoption and children looked after by local authorities
Adoption
1
Placement of looked after children with prospective adopters
2
Repeal of requirement to give due consideration to ethnicity: England
3
Recruitment, assessment and approval of prospective adopters
4
Adoption support services: personal budgets
5
Adoption support services: duty to provide information
6
The Adoption and Children Act Register
Contact
7
Contact: children in care of local authorities
8
Contact: post-adoption
Promotion of educational achievement of children looked after by local authorities
9
Promotion of educational achievement of children looked after by local
authorities
Part 2
Family justice
10
Family mediation information and assessment meetings
11
Welfare of the child: parental involvement
12
Child arrangements orders
13
Control of expert evidence, and of assessments, in children proceedings
14
Care, supervision and other family proceedings: time limits and timetables
15
Care plans
16
Care proceedings and care plans: regulations: procedural requirements
17
Repeal of restrictions on divorce and dissolution etc where there are children
18
Repeal of uncommenced provisions of Part 2 of the Family Law Act 1996

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Part 3
Children and young people in England with special educational needs
Local authority functions: general principles
19
Local authority functions: supporting and involving children and young
people
Special educational needs etc
20
When a child or young person has special educational needs
21
Special educational provision, health care provision and social care provision
Children and young people for whom a local authority is responsible
22
Identifying children and young people with special educational needs
23
When a local authority is responsible for a child or young person
24
Duty of health bodies to bring certain children to local authority’s attention
Education, health and care provision: integration and joint commissioning
25
Promoting integration
26
Joint commissioning arrangements
Review of education and care provision
27
Duty to keep education and care provision under review
Co-operation and assistance
28
Co-operating generally: local authority functions
29
Co-operating generally: governing body functions
Information and advice
30
Local offer for children and young people with special educational needs
31
Co-operating in specific cases: local authority functions
32
Advice and information for parents and young people
Mainstream education
33
Children and young people with EHC plans
34
Children and young people with special educational needs but no EHC plan
35
Children with SEN in maintained nurseries and mainstream schools
Assessment
36
Assessment of education, health and care needs
Education, health and care plans
37
Education, health and care plans
38
Preparation of EHC plans: draft plan

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Finalising EHC plans: request for particular school or other institution
40
Finalising EHC plans: no request for particular school or other institution
41
Independent special schools and special post-16 institutions: approval
42
Duty to secure special educational provision and health care provision in
accordance with EHC Plan
43
Schools and other institutions named in EHC plan: duty to admit
44
Reviews and re-assessments
45
Ceasing to maintain an EHC plan
46
Maintaining an EHC plan after young person’s 25th birthday
47
Release of child or young person for whom EHC plan previously maintained
48
Personal budgets
49
Continuation of services under section 17 of the Children Act 1989
Appeals, mediation and dispute resolution
50
Appeals
51
Mediation
52
Resolution of disagreements
53
Appeals and claims by children: pilot schemes
54
Appeals and claims by children: follow-up provision
55
Equality Act 2010: claims against schools by disabled young people
Special educational provision: functions of local authorities
56
Special educational provision otherwise than in schools, post-16 institutions
etc
57
Special educational provision outside England and Wales
58
Fees for special educational provision at non-maintained schools and post-16
institutions
59
Supply of goods and services
60
Access to schools, post-16 institutions and other institutions
Special educational provision: functions of governing bodies and others
61
Using best endeavours to secure special educational provision
62
SEN co-ordinators
63
Informing parents and young people
64
SEN information report
Information to improve well-being of children and young people with SEN
65
Provision and publication of special needs information
Code of practice
66
Code of practice
67
Making and approval of code
Supplementary
68
Parents and young people lacking capacity
69
Part does not apply to detained children and young people
70
Disapplication of Chapter 1 of Part 4 of EA 1996 in relation to children in
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Consequential amendments
72
Interpretation of Part 3
Part 4
Childminder agencies etc
73
Childminder agencies
74
Inspections at request of providers of childcare to young children
75
Repeal of local authority’s duty to assess sufficiency of childcare provision
76
Governing bodies: provision of community facilities
Part 5
The Children’s Commissioner
77
Primary function of the Children’s Commissioner
78
Provision by Commissioner of advice and assistance to certain children
79
Commissioner’s powers to enter premises
80
Provision of information to Commissioner
81
Advisory board
82
Business plans
83
Annual reports
84
Children living away from home or receiving social care
85
Children’s Commissioner: minor and consequential amendments
86
Repeal of requirement to appoint Children’s Rights Director
Part 6
Statutory rights to leave and pay
Shared parental leave
87
Shared parental leave
88
Exclusion or curtailment of other statutory rights to leave
Statutory shared parental pay
89
Statutory shared parental pay
90
Exclusion or curtailment of other statutory rights to pay
Other statutory rights
91
Statutory rights to leave and pay of prospective adopters with whom looked
after children are placed
92
Statutory rights to leave and pay of applicants for parental orders
93
Statutory paternity pay: notice requirement and period of payment
94
Rate of statutory adoption pay
95
Abolition of additional paternity leave and additional statutory paternity pay
Further amendments
96
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Part 7
Time off work: ante-natal care etc
97
Time off work to accompany to ante-natal appointments
98
Time off work to attend adoption appointments
99
Right not to be subjected to detriment: agency workers
100
Time off work for ante-natal care: increased amount of award
Part 8
Right to request flexible working
101
Removal of requirement to be a carer
102
Dealing with applications
103
Complaints to employment tribunals
104
Review of sections 101 to 103
Part 9
General provisions
105
Orders and regulations
106
Consequential amendments, repeals and revocations
107
Transitional, transitory or saving provision
108
Financial provision
109
Commencement
110
Short title and extent
Schedule 1   —
The Adoption and Children Act Register
Schedule 2   —
Child arrangements orders: amendments
Part 1   —
Amendments of the Children Act 1989
Part 2   —
Amendments in other legislation
Schedule 3   —
Special educational needs: consequential amendments
Part 1   —
Amendments to the Education Act 1996
Part 2   —
Amendments to other Acts
Schedule 4   —
Childminder agencies: amendments to the Childcare Act 2006
and related amendments
Part 1   —
The childcare registers
Part 2   —
Early years childminder agencies
Part 3   —
Later years childminder agencies
Part 4   —
Voluntary registration with childminder agency
Part 5   —
Provisions applying in relation to all childminder agencies
Part 6   —
Other amendments
Schedule 5   —
Children’s Commissioner: minor and consequential
amendments
Schedule 6   —
Repeal of requirement to appoint Children’s Rights Director:
transfer schemes
Schedule 7   —
Statutory rights to leave and pay: further amendments

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