{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014/section-105",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014/section-105.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2014/4",
  "legislation_title": "Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014",
  "path": "section/105",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "105",
  "heading": "Keeping in touch",
  "text": "(1) The responsible local authority for a category 2 or category 3 young person must take reasonable steps to keep in touch with that person, whether the person is within its area or not.\n(2) If the responsible local authority for a category 2 or category 3 young person has lost touch with that person it must—\n(a) consider how to re-establish contact, and\n(b) take reasonable steps to do so.\n(3) In the case of a category 2 young person, the responsible local authority must discharge its duty under subsection (2) without delay and continue to take reasonable steps to re-establish contact until it succeeds.\n(4) In the case of a category 3 young person, the duties under subsections (1) and (2) are subject to section 111.\n(5) The responsible local authority for a category 6 young person falling within that category by virtue of section 104(3)(a) must take reasonable steps to contact the young person at such times as it thinks appropriate with a view to discharging its functions under section 115.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 105-116 excluded by 2002 c. 41, Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(o) (as inserted (6.4.2016) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 199(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 105 in force at 6.4.2016 by S.I. 2016/412, art. 2 (with art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2014/4/section/105",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:25.857129+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."
}