{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-social-work-act-2017/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-social-work-act-2017/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/16",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Social Work Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-social-work-act-2017",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Funding",
  "text": "After section 16H of the Children Act 2004 (inserted by section 19 of this Act) insert—\n“Funding\n16I (1) The safeguarding partners for a local authority area in England may make payments towards expenditure incurred in connection with arrangements under section 16E or 16F—\n(a) by making payments directly, or\n(b) by contributing to a fund out of which the payments may be made.\n(2) The payments that may be made include payments of remuneration, allowances or expenses to a reviewer or an independent person.\n(3) The safeguarding partners for a local authority area in England may provide staff, goods, services, accommodation or other resources to any person for purposes connected with arrangements under section 16E or 16F.\n(4) Relevant agencies for a local authority area in England may make payments towards expenditure incurred in connection with arrangements under section 16E—\n(a) by making payments directly, or\n(b) by contributing to a fund out of which the payments may be made.\n(5) In this section an “independent person” means an independent person mentioned in section 16G(3).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at 29.6.2018 by S.I. 2018/497, reg. 3(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/16/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:34.458876+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."
}