Paragraph 27 Multi-Agency ForumI1

England and Wales As made

(1)

The Home Secretary must establish a group of persons (the “Multi-Agency Forum”)—

(a)

nominated by the persons and bodies specified in sub-paragraph (2) to represent them, in response to an invitation to each of them from the Home Secretary;

(b)

to meet—

(i)

for the purpose specified in sub-paragraph (3);

(ii)

regularly, and in any event not less than once in every two calendar months, throughout the period in which the Order land is used to accommodate service users.

(2)

The persons and bodies to be represented on the Multi-Agency Forum are—

(a)

each of the following that have functions in respect of the Order land or part of it—

(i)

a fire and rescue authority (as defined in section 1 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004) (fire and rescue authorities)^f1);

(ii)

a local planning authority;

(iii)

in so far as they are not within sub-paragraphs (i) or (ii), a county council, district council, or parish council;

(iv)

an integrated care board established under section 14Z25 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (duty to establish integrated care boards)^f2;

(v)

a chief officer of police;

(b)

the UK Health Security Agency;

(c)

the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities;

(d)

East Midlands Strategic Migration Partnership;

(e)

a voluntary or charitable organisation providing information and assistance to service users;

(f)

any other person or body that the Home Secretary considers it appropriate to invite to be represented on the Multi-Agency Forum.

(3)

The purpose of the Multi-Agency Forum is to facilitate the exchange of information and views between the Home Secretary and the persons and bodies represented on the Multi-Agency Forum about interactions between the performance of their functions and the Home Secretary’s performance of relevant functions in relation to resident service users.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 3 para. 27 in force at 11.4.2024, see art. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: 2004 c. 21. Section 1 was amended by the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), Schedule 1, Part 1, and Schedule 2, paragraphs 110 and 111; the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (c. 36), Schedule 2, paragraphs 10(1) and (2); the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), Schedule 4, paragraph 157.
f2: 2006 c. 43. Section 14Z25 was inserted by the Health and Care Act 2022 c. 31), section 19. NHS England has made the Integrated Care Boards (Establishment) Order 2022, which is published at https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/B1770-integrated-care-boards-establishment-order-2022.pdf, under section 14Z25.