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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/apprenticeships-skills-children-and-learning-act-2009/section-252",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/22",
  "legislation_title": "Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/apprenticeships-skills-children-and-learning-act-2009",
  "path": "section/252",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "252",
  "heading": "Information about expenditure: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of section 251.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The children's social services functions of a local authority in England are—\n(a) functions conferred on or exercisable by the authority which are social services functions, so far as those functions relate to children;\n(b) functions conferred on the authority under sections 23C to 24D of the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), so far as not within paragraph (a);\n(c) functions conferred on the authority ... under sections 10 to 12, 12C, 12D and 17A of the Children Act 2004 (c. 31).\n(4) “Accountable resources”, in relation to a school maintained by a local authority, means resources that are not provided by the authority in the exercise of its education functions, but in respect of which an obligation is imposed on the school's governing body by virtue of regulations under section 44 of the Education Act 2002 (c. 32) (accounts of maintained schools).\n(5) The Secretary of State may by order amend this section for one or more of the following purposes—\n(za) specifying additional functions which are to be treated as education functions\n(a) adding to the functions that are ... children's social services functions;\n(b) removing or changing the description of functions that are education functions or children's social services functions.\n(6) In this section—\n.........\n“social services functions” has the same meaning as in the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (c. 42) (see section 1A of that Act).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 252(2) repealed (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children's Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 16(14)(a), Sch. 3 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 252(3)(c) repealed (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children's Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 16(14)(b), Sch. 3 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 252(4) substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children's Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 16(14)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 252(5)(za) inserted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children's Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 16(14)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 252(5)(a) repealed (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children's Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 16(14)(d)(ii), Sch. 3 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 252(6) repealed (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children's Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 16(14)(e), Sch. 3 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 252 in force at 12.1.2010 by S.I. 2009/3317, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/22/section/252",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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