Regulation 13 Transitional Provisions
Where immediately before 1 July 2007 a child is being accommodated by a local authority, a voluntary organisation or in a private children’s home, these Regulations will have effect subject to the following provisions of this regulation.
Where a child has been accommodated by a local authority, voluntary organisation or in a private children’s home before 1 July 2007 and there has not been a review of their case, or where a review is overdue under the provisions of the Review of Children’s Cases Regulations 1991f1, that child’s case must be reviewed not later than four weeks from 1 July 2007 and subsequent reviews must take place in accordance with regulation 4(2) or 12(2) as the case may be.
Where regulation 4 applies, and a child has been accommodated by a local authority, voluntary organisation or in a private children’s home before 1 July 2007 and there has been a review of the case before that date, the next review of the child’s case must be carried out—
where the review before 1 July 2007 was a first review, three months from the date of that review; or
where the last review before 1 July 2007 was a second or subsequent review, six months from the date of that review; and
in either case subsequent reviews must take place in accordance with regulation 4(2).
Where regulation 12 applies, and a child has been accommodated by a local authority, voluntary organisation or in a private children’s home before 1 July 2007 and there has been a review of the case before that date, the next review of the child’s case must be carried out—
where the review before 1 July 2007 was a first review, six months from the date of that review; or
where the last review before 1 July 2007 was a second or subsequent review, if the case continues, six months from the date of that review; and
in either case subsequent reviews must take place in accordance with regulation 12(2).
Annotations
Footnotes
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1991 S.I.1991/895.