Children and Social Work Bill (HC Bill 121)

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department for Education, are
published separately as Bill 99—EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Secretary Justine Greening has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of
the Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Children and Social Work Bill [HL] are compatible
with the Convention rights.

Contents

  1. Part 1

    Children

    1. Chapter 1

      Looked after children

      1. Corporate parenting principles for English local authorities

        1. 1. Corporate parenting principles

      2. Care leavers in England

        1. 2. Local offer for care leavers

        2. 3. Advice and support

      3. Educational achievement in England

        1. 4. Duty of local authority in relation to previously looked after children

        2. 5. Maintained schools: staff member for previously looked after pupils

        3. 6. Academies: staff member for looked after and previously looked after pupils

        4. 7. Maintained schools: guidance for staff member for looked after pupils

      4. Care and adoption proceedings in England and Wales

        1. 8. Care orders: permanence provisions

        2. 9. Adoption: duty to have regard to relationship with adopters

      5. Secure accomodation

        1. 10. Placing children in secure accommodation elsewhere in Great Britain

      6. Chapter 1: consequential amendments

        1. 11. Chapter 1: consequential amendments

    2. Chapter 2

      Safeguarding of children

      1. Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel

        1. 12. Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel

        2. 13. Functions of the Panel

        3. 14. Events to be notified to the Panel

        4. 15. Information

      2. Local arrangements for safeguarding and promoting welfare of children

        1. 16. Local arrangements for safeguarding and promoting welfare of children

        2. 17. Local child safeguarding practice reviews

        3. 18. Further provision about arrangements

        4. 19. Information

        5. 20. Funding

        6. 21. Combining safeguarding partner areas and delegating functions

        7. 22. Guidance by Secretary of State

        8. 23. Interpretation

      3. Child death reviews

        1. 24. Child death reviews

        2. 25. Information

        3. 26. Funding

        4. 27. Combining child death review partner areas and delegating functions

        5. 28. Guidance and interpretation

      4. Miscellaneous

        1. 29. Regulations under provisions inserted by sections 13, 16 and 17

        2. 30. Abolition of Local Safeguarding Children Boards

        3. 31. Chapter 2: consequential amendments

    3. Chapter 3

      Children's social care: different ways of working

      1. 32. Power to test different ways of working

      2. 33. Duration

      3. 34. Parliamentary procedure

      4. 35. Consultation by local authority

      5. 36. Consultation by Secretary of State

      6. 37. Guidance

      7. 38. Annual report

      8. 39. Interpretation

    4. Chapter 4

      Other provision relating to children's social care

      1. Children's social care: pre-employment protection of whistle-blowers

        1. 40. Pre-employment protection of whistle-blowers

      2. Combined authority functions relating to children

        1. 41. Power to secure proper performance

  2. Part 2

    Social workers etc in England

    1. Social Work England

      1. 42. Social Work England

      2. 43. Over-arching objective

      3. 44. Advisers

    2. Regulation and improvement

      1. 45. Registration

      2. 46. Restrictions on practice and protected titles

      3. 47. Professional standards

      4. 48. Improvement standards

      5. 49. Education and training

      6. 50. Discipline and fitness to practise

      7. 51. Offences

    3. Approval of courses in relation to mental health social work

      1. 52. Approval of courses for approved mental health professionals

      2. 53. Approval of courses for best interests assessors

    4. Fees and grants

      1. 54. Fees

      2. 55. Grants

    5. Information and co-operation

      1. 56. Information and advice

      2. 57. Duty to co-operate

    6. Oversight

      1. 58. Information for Secretary of State

      2. 59. Default powers

      3. 60. Oversight by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care

    7. Regulations under Part 2

      1. 61. Conferral of functions and sub-delegation

      2. 62. Consultation

      3. 63. Parliamentary procedure for regulations under Part 2

    8. Transfer scheme and repeal of existing powers to regulate

      1. 64. Transfer scheme

      2. 65. Repeal of existing powers to regulate social workers

    9. Interpretation

      1. 66. Interpretation of Part 2

    10. Review

      1. 67. Review by independent person

  3. Part 3

    General

    1. 68. Power to make transitional provision

    2. 69. Power to make consequential provision

    3. 70. Regulations: general

    4. 71. Affirmative and negative resolution procedures

    5. 72. Extent

    6. 73. Commencement

    7. 74. Short title

    1. Schedule 1

      Placing children in secure accommodation elsewhere in Great
      Britain

    2. Schedule 2

      Part 1 of this Act: consequential amendments

      1. Part 1

        Amendment relating to Chapter 1

      2. Part 2

        Amendments relating to abolition of Local Safeguarding
        Children Boards

    3. Schedule 3

      Social Work England

    4. Schedule 4

      Oversight by the Professional Standards Authority for Health
      and Social Care