Children and Families Act 2014
Children and Families Act 2014 (2014 c. 6)
- Children and Families Act 2014 (2014 c. 6)
- PART 1 Adoption and contact
- Adoption
- 1 Contact between prescribed persons and adopted person's relatives
- 2 Placement of looked after children with prospective adopters
- 3 Repeal of requirement to give due consideration to ethnicity: England
- 4 Recruitment, assessment and approval of prospective adopters
- 5 Adoption support services: personal budgets
- 6 Adoption support services: duty to provide information
- 7 The Adoption and Children Act Register
- Contact
- 8 Contact: children in care of local authorities
- 9 Contact: post-adoption
- PART 2 Family justice
- 10 Family mediation information and assessment meetings
- 11 Welfare of the child: parental involvement
- 12 Child arrangements orders
- 13 Control of expert evidence, and of assessments, in children proceedings
- 14 Care, supervision and other family proceedings: time limits and timetables
- 15 Care plans
- 16 Care proceedings and care plans: regulations: procedural requirements
- 17 Repeal of restrictions on divorce and dissolution etc where there are children
- 18 Repeal of uncommenced provisions of Part 2 of the Family Law Act 1996
- PART 3 Children and young people in England with special educational needs or disabilities
- Local authority functions: general principles
- 19 Local authority functions: supporting and involving children and young people
- Special educational needs etc
- 20 When a child or young person has special educational needs
- 21 Special educational provision, health care provision and social care provision
- Identifying children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
- 22 Identifying children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
- 23 Duty of health bodies to bring certain children to local authority's attention
- Children and young people for whom a local authority is responsible
- 24 When a local authority is responsible for a child or young person
- Education, health and care provision: integration and joint commissioning
- 25 Promoting integration
- 26 Joint commissioning arrangements
- Review of education and care provision
- 27 Duty to keep education and care provision under review
- Co-operation and assistance
- 28 Co-operating generally: local authority functions
- 29 Co-operating generally: governing body functions
- Information and advice
- 30 SEN and disability local offer
- 31 Co-operating in specific cases: local authority functions
- 32 Advice and information
- Mainstream education
- 33 Children and young people with EHC plans
- 34 Children and young people with special educational needs but no EHC plan
- 35 Children with SEN in maintained nurseries and mainstream schools
- Assessment
- 36 Assessment of education, health and care needs
- Education, health and care plans
- 37 Education, health and care plans
- 38 Preparation of EHC plans: draft plan
- 39 Finalising EHC plans: request for particular school or other institution
- 40 Finalising EHC plans: no request for particular school or other institution
- 41 Independent special schools and special post-16 institutions: approval
- 42 Duty to secure special educational provision and health care provision in accordance with EHC Plan
- 43 Schools and other institutions named in EHC plan: duty to admit
- 44 Reviews and re-assessments
- 45 Ceasing to maintain an EHC plan
- 46 Maintaining an EHC plan after young person's 25th birthday
- 47 Transfer of EHC plans
- 48 Release of child or young person for whom EHC plan previously maintained
- 49 Personal budgets and direct payments
- 50 Continuation of services under section 17 of the Children Act 1989
- Appeals, mediation and dispute resolution
- 51 Appeals
- 52 Right to mediation
- 53 Mediation: health care issues
- 54 Mediation: educational and social care issues etc
- 55 Mediation
- 56 Mediation: supplementary
- 57 Resolution of disagreements
- 58 Appeals and claims by children: pilot schemes
- 59 Appeals and claims by children: follow-up provision
- 60 Equality Act 2010: claims against schools by disabled young people
- Special educational provision: functions of local authorities
- 61 Special educational provision otherwise than in schools, post-16 institutions etc
- 62 Special educational provision outside England and Wales
- 63 Fees for special educational provision at non-maintained schools and post-16 institutions
- 64 Supply of goods and services
- 65 Access to schools, post-16 institutions and other institutions
- Special educational provision: functions of governing bodies and others
- 66 Using best endeavours to secure special educational provision
- 67 SEN co-ordinators
- 68 Informing parents and young people
- 69 SEN information report
- Detained persons
- 70 Application of Part to detained persons
- 71 Assessment of post-detention education, health and care needs of detained persons
- 72 Securing EHC plans for certain detained persons
- 73 EHC plans for certain detained persons: appeals and mediation
- 74 Duty to keep EHC plans for detained persons
- 75 Supply of goods and services: detained persons
- Information to improve well-being of children and young people with SEN
- 76 Provision and publication of special needs information
- Code of practice
- 77 Code of practice
- 78 Making and approval of code
- 79 Review of resolution of disagreements
- Supplementary
- 80 Parents and young people lacking capacity
- 81 Disapplication of Chapter 1 of Part 4 of EA 1996 in relation to children in England
- 82 Consequential amendments
- 83 Interpretation of Part 3
- PART 4 Childcare etc
- 84 Childminder agencies
- 85 Inspections at request of providers of childcare to young children
- 86 Repeal of local authority's duty to assess sufficiency of childcare provision
- 87 Discharge of authority's duty to secure free early years provision
- 88 Governing bodies: provision of community facilities
- 89 Childcare costs scheme: preparatory expenditure
- PART 5 Welfare of children
- Child performances
- 90 Extension of licensing of child performances to children under 14
- Tobacco, nicotine products and smoking
- 91 Purchase of tobacco, nicotine productsetc. on behalf of persons under 18
- 92 Prohibition of sale of nicotine products to persons under 18
- 93 Amendments consequential on section 92
- 94 Regulation of retail packaging etc of tobacco products
- 95 Smoking in a private vehicle
- Young carers and parent carers
- 96 Young carers
- 97 Parent carers
- Staying put arrangements
- 98 Arrangements for living with former foster parents after reaching adulthood
- Educational achievement of looked after children
- 99 Promotion of educational achievement of children looked after by local authorities
- Pupils with medical conditions
- 100 Duty to support pupils with medical conditions
- 100A Allergy safety policy
- 100B Regulations about allergy safety
- Local authority functions: intervention
- 101 Local authority functions relating to children etc: intervention
- Regulation of children's homes etc
- 102 Application of suspension etc powers to establishments and agencies in England
- 103 Objectives and standards for establishments and agencies in England
- 104 National minimum standards for establishments and agencies in England
- 105 Disqualification from carrying on, or being employed in, a children's home
- Free school lunches
- 106 Provision of free school lunches
- PART 6 The Children's Commissioner
- 107 Primary function of the Children's Commissioner
- 108 Provision by Commissioner of advice and assistance to certain children
- 109 Commissioner's powers to enter premises
- 110 Provision of information to Commissioner
- 111 Advisory board
- 112 Business plans
- 113 Annual reports
- 114 Children living away from home or receiving social care
- 115 Children's Commissioner: minor and consequential amendments
- 116 Repeal of requirement to appoint Children's Rights Director
- PART 7 Statutory rights to leave and pay
- Shared parental leave
- 117 Shared parental leave
- 118 Exclusion or curtailment of other statutory rights to leave
- Statutory shared parental pay
- 119 Statutory shared parental pay
- 120 Exclusion or curtailment of other statutory rights to pay
- Other statutory rights
- 121 Statutory rights to leave and pay of prospective adopters with whom looked after children are placed
- 122 Statutory rights to leave and pay of applicants for parental orders
- 123 Statutory paternity pay: notice requirement and period of payment
- 124 Rate of statutory adoption pay
- 125 Abolition of additional paternity leave and additional statutory paternity pay
- Further amendments
- 126 Further amendments
- PART 8 Time off work: ante-natal care etc
- 127 Time off work to accompany to ante-natal appointments
- 128 Time off work to attend adoption appointments
- 129 Right not to be subjected to detriment: agency workers
- 130 Time off work for ante-natal care: increased amount of award
- PART 9 Right to request flexible working
- 131 Removal of requirement to be a carer
- 132 Dealing with applications
- 133 Complaints to employment tribunals
- 134 Review of sections 131 to 133
- PART 10 General provisions
- 135 Orders and regulations
- 136 Consequential amendments, repeals and revocations
- 137 Transitional, transitory or saving provision
- 138 Financial provision
- 139 Commencement
- 140 Short title and extent
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 The Adoption and Children Act Register
- SCHEDULE 2 Child arrangements orders: amendments
- PART 1 Amendments of the Children Act 1989
- PART 2 Amendments in other legislation
- Marriage Act 1949 (c. 76)
- Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54)
- Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (c. 42)
- Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 (c. 45)
- Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20)
- Child Abduction Act 1984 (c. 37)
- Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c. 60)
- Family Law Act 1986 (c. 55)
- Child Support Act 1991 (c. 48)
- Armed Forces Act 1991 (c. 62)
- Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38)
- Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)
- Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c. 5)
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10)
- SCHEDULE 3 Special educational needs: consequential amendments
- PART 1 Amendments to the Education Act 1996
- PART 2 Amendments to other Acts
- Local Government Act 1974 (c. 7)
- Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986 (c. 33)
- Children Act 1989 (c. 41)
- Value Added Tax Act 1994 (c. 23)
- School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c. 31)
- Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21)
- Education Act 2002 (c. 32)
- Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41)
- Children Act 2004 (c. 31)
- Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c. 40)
- Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25)
- Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22)
- Academies Act 2010 (c. 32)
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10)
- SCHEDULE 4 Childminder agencies: amendments
- PART 1 The childcare registers
- PART 2 Early years childminder agencies
- PART 3 Later years childminder agencies
- PART 4 Voluntary registration with childminder agency
- PART 5 Provisions applying in relation to all childminder agencies
- PART 6 Other amendments
- SCHEDULE 5 Children's Commissioner: minor and consequential amendments
- Inquiries
- Functions of Commissioner: children in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Young persons
- Appointment and tenure of Children's Commissioner
- Deputy Children's Commissioner
- SCHEDULE 6 Repeal of requirement to appoint Children's Rights Director: transfer schemes
- Staff transfer schemes
- Property transfer schemes
- The Chief Inspector
- Continuity
- Supplementary provisions
- Interpretation
- SCHEDULE 7 Statutory rights to leave and pay: further amendments
- Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24)
- Finance Act 1989 (c. 26)
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4)
- Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)
- Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18)
- Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2)
- Finance Act 1999 (c. 16)
- Finance Act 2000 (c. 17)
- Employment Act 2002 (c. 22)
- Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29)
- Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1)
- Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11)
- Work and Families Act 2006 (c. 18)
- Income Tax Act 2007 (c. 3)
- Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5)
- Pensions Act 2008 (c. 30)
- Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5)
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