{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-19B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-19B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/41",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/19B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A local authority shall have the following additional functions in relation to an eligible child whom they are looking after.\n( 2 ) In sub-paragraph (1) “ eligible child ” means, subject to sub-paragraph (3), a child who—\n(a) is aged sixteen or seventeen; and\n(b) has been looked after by a local authority or by a local authority in Wales for a prescribed period, or periods amounting in all to a prescribed period, which began after he reached a prescribed age and ended after he reached the age of sixteen.\n(3) The Secretary of State may prescribe—\n(a) additional categories of eligible children; and\n(b) categories of children who are not to be eligible children despite falling within sub-paragraph (2).\n(4) For each eligible child, the local authority shall carry out an assessment of his needs with a view to determining what advice, assistance and support it would be appropriate for them to provide him under this Act—\n(a) while they are still looking after him; and\n(b) after they cease to look after him,\nand shall then prepare a pathway plan for him.\n(5) The local authority shall keep the pathway plan under regular review.\n(6) Any such review may be carried out at the same time as a review of the child’s case carried out by virtue of section 26.\n(7) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision as to assessments for the purposes of sub-paragraph (4).\n(8) The regulations may in particular provide for the matters set out in section 23B(6).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. II paras. 19A-19C and preceding cross-headings inserted (1.10.2001) by 2000 c. 35, s. 1; S.I. 2001/2191, art. 2; S.I. 2001/2878, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. II paras. 19A-19C and preceding cross-headings inserted (1.10.2001) by 2000 c. 35, s. 1; S.I. 2001/2191, art. 2; S.I. 2001/2878, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 19B(2)(b) inserted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 115(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 19B(3) substituted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 115(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 19B(7) substituted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 115(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 pt. II para. 19B(2) restricted (W.) (1.10.2001) by S.I. 2001/2189, reg. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/41/schedule/2/paragraph/19B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T07:28:21.051680+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."
}