Education written question – answered at on 12 June 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether he plans to exempt any functions from his proposals to allow further delegation of children's social care functions.
Part 1 of the Children and Young Person’s Act 2008 currently allows local authorities to delegate social care functions relating to children in care and care leavers. The legislation precludes delegation of independent reviewing officer functions, and of adoption functions, unless the other party to the arrangement is a registered adoption society.
The Government’s proposals would not alter those exemptions, but seek to enable local authorities to delegate a wider range of social services functions (if they so wish), to broaden the range of approaches available to secure the best outcomes for children in their area. The recent consultation on the proposals closed on
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