{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/41",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where it appears to a local authority that a child within their area is in need, the authority may assess his needs for the purposes of this Act at the same time as any assessment of his needs is made under—\n(a) the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970;\n(b) Part IV of the Education Act 1996;\n(ba) Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014;\n(c) the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986; or\n(d) any other enactment.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3(b) substituted (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 1(4), 582(1), 583(2), Sch. 37, para. 92"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3(ba) inserted (1.9.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 3 para. 65(3); S.I. 2014/889, art. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1970 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1986 c. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 3 wholly in force at 14.10.1991 see s. 108(2)(3) and S.I. 1991/828, art. 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      "type": "words repealed",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      "type": "words repealed",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/3",
    "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."
}