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Children and Young Persons Act 2008

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

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What to do with it
As published

19 Support for accommodated children

After paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act insert— Provision for accommodated children 8A (1) Every local authority shall make provision for such services as they consider appropriate to be available with respect to accommodated children. (2) “Accommodated children” are those children in respect of whose accommodation the local authority have been notified under section 85 or 86. (3) The services shall be provided with a view to promoting contact between each accommodated child and that child's family. (4) The services may, in particular, include— (a) advice, guidance and counselling; (b) services necessary to enable the child to visit, or to be visited by, members of the family; (c) assistance to enable the child and members of the family to have a holiday together. (5) Nothing in this paragraph affects the duty imposed by paragraph 10.

Your change, as a redline

19 Support for accommodated children

After paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act insert— Provision for accommodated children 8A (1) Every local authority shall make provision for such services as they consider appropriate to be available with respect to accommodated children. (2) “Accommodated children” are those children in respect of whose accommodation the local authority have been notified under section 85 or 86. (3) The services shall be provided with a view to promoting contact between each accommodated child and that child's family. (4) The services may, in particular, include— (a) advice, guidance and counselling; (b) services necessary to enable the child to visit, or to be visited by, members of the family; (c) assistance to enable the child and members of the family to have a holiday together. (5) Nothing in this paragraph affects the duty imposed by paragraph 10.

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Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

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