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Require the Secretary of State to establish a national strategy to safeguard |
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runaway and missing children; to make provision for the collection and |
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reporting of information about runaway and missing children and for related |
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co-ordination between local authorities and other bodies; and for connected |
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Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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1 | “Runaway and missing children” |
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(1) | In this Act “runaway and missing children” includes any child or young |
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person under the age of eighteen who— |
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(a) | has run away or is staying away from the person who is responsible for |
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(b) | has left home due to rejection by the person who is responsible for that |
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2 | Duty of Secretary of State in relation to runaway and missing children |
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(1) | It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State by regulations— |
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(a) | to promote the establishment of a national strategy and service |
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framework to safeguard runaway and missing children; and |
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for the collection and reporting of information about runaway and |
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(1) | The power of the Secretary of State to make regulations under section 2 is |
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(a) | any expenditure under this Act of the Secretary of State, and |
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5 | Short title, commencement and extent |
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(1) | This Act may be cited as the Safeguarding Runaway and Missing Children Act |
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(2) | This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning |
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with the day on which it is passed. |
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(3) | This Act extends to England and Wales only. |
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Safeguarding Runaway and Missing Children Bill |
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To Require the Secretary of State to establish a national strategy to safeguard |
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runaway and missing children; to make provision for the collection and |
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reporting of information about runaway and missing children and for related |
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co-ordination between local authorities and other bodies; and for connected |
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