{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-act-2000/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-act-2000/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/35",
  "legislation_title": "Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-act-2000",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Minor and consequential amendments.",
  "text": "(1) The 1989 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 17 (provision of services for children in need, their families and others), in subsection (5)(a), for “23 or 24” substitute “ 23, 23B to 23D, 24A or 24B ”.\n(3) In section 29 (recoupment of cost of providing services etc.)—\n(a) at the beginning of subsection (9), insert “ Except where subsection (10) applies, ”; and\n(b) after subsection (9) insert—\n“(10) Where a local authority (“authority A”) comply with any request under section 27(2) from another local authority (“authority B”) in relation to a child or other person—\n(a) whose responsible authority is authority B for the purposes of section 23B or 23C; or\n(b) whom authority B are advising or befriending or to whom they are giving assistance by virtue of section 24(5)(a),\nauthority A may recover from authority B any reasonable expenses incurred by them in respect of that person.”.\n(4) In Part I of Schedule 2 (provision of services for families), in paragraph 1(2)(a)(i), for “20 and 24” substitute “ 20, 23B to 23D, 24A and 24B ”.\n(5) In the Care Standards Act 2000, in Schedule 4 (minor and consequential amendments)—\n(a) in paragraph 14(4), the words “, as it has effect before the commencement of section 4 of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000”; and\n(b) paragraph 14(5) and (6),\nare repealed.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2000 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 wholly in force at 1.10.2001; s. 7 in force at Royal Assent for certain purposes see s. 8(2); s. 7(1)-(4) in force for W. at 1.10.2001 by S.I. 2001/2191, art. 2; s. 7(1)-(4) in force for E. at 1.10.2001 by S.I. 2001/2878, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/35/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:36.806970+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."
}