{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-2004/section-16Q",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-2004/section-16Q.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/31",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-2004",
  "path": "section/16Q",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16Q",
  "heading": "Guidance and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The child death review partners for a local authority area in England must have regard to any guidance given by the Secretary of State in connection with functions conferred on them by sections 16M to 16P.\n(2) In this section and sections 16M to 16P “child death review partners”, in relation to a local authority area in England, means—\n(a) the local authority;\n(b) any integrated care board for an area any part of which falls within the local authority area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 16Q inserted (29.6.2018) by Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16), ss. 28, 70(2); S.I. 2018/497, reg. 3(q)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 16Q(2)(b) substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 4 para. 79; S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/31/section/16Q",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:56.383931+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."
}