{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-1995-order-amendment-childrens-services-planning-order-northern-ireland-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-1995-order-amendment-childrens-services-planning-order-northern-ireland-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/261",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (1995 Order) (Amendment) (Children’s Services Planning) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-1995-order-amendment-childrens-services-planning-order-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995",
  "text": "After paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Children (Northern Ireland)Order 1995 (provision of services for families: specific powers and duties)there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“Children’s services plans\n2A (1) Every Board shall, on or before 3 1 st March 1999—\n(a) review the services provided within its area under Articles 18, 2 1,23, 27, 35 and 36; and\n(b) having regard to that review and the most recent reviews under Article 20, prepare and publish a plan for the provision of services under Part IV.\n(2) Every Board—\n(a) shall review at least once on or before 3 1 st March 2000 and then at least once in each financial year thereafter, the plan prepared by it under sub-paragraph (1)(b) (as modified or last substituted under this sub-paragraph); and\n(b) may, having regard to that review and to the most recent reviews under Article 20, prepare and publish—\n(i) modifications (or, as the case may be, further modifications)to the plan reviewed; or\n(ii) a plan in substitution for that plan.\n(3) In carrying out any review under this paragraph and in preparing any plan or modification to a plan, a Board shall consult—\n(a) every Health and Social Services trust the whole or any part of whose area lies within the Board’s area;\n(b) every education and library board the whole or any part of whose area lies within the Board’s area;\n(c) every district council the whole or any part of whose district lies within the Board’s area;\n(d) such voluntary organisations as appear to the Board—\n(i) to represent the interests of persons who use or are likely to use services provided by the Board under Part IV; or\n(ii) to provide services in the Board’s area which, were they to be provided by the Board, might be categorised as services provided under that Part;\n(e) the Northern Ireland Housing Executive;\n(f) the Chief Constable;\n(g) the Probation Board for Northern Ireland;\n(h) such other persons as appear to the Board to be appropriate; and\n(i) such other persons as the Department may direct.\n(4) Every Board shall, within 28 days of receiving a written request from the Department, submit to it a copy of—\n(a) the plan prepared by the Board under sub-paragraph (1); or\n(b) where that plan has been modified or substituted, the plan as modified or last substituted.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/261/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:23:29.951080+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}