Children Act 1989: care planning, placement and case review

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• Author:Department for Education
• Published:31 March 2010
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Details of the Children Act 1989: care planning, placement and case review

Statutory guidance about local authority support to children and families.

This statutory guidance applies to:

• local authorities
• children’s services directors
• children’s services social workers
• front-line managers who have particular responsibilities in relation to looked-after children
• managers and commissioners of services for looked-after children

Statutory guidance sets out what you must do to comply with the law. You should follow the guidance unless you have a very good reason not to.

The guidance is also relevant to Children’s Trust partner agencies and to providers of services to looked-after children, including private, voluntary and public sector providers and foster carers.

The document consolidates a number of separate documents we’ve previously published, including “Delegation of authority to foster carers”.

This is volume 2 in a series of 5 related statutory guidance publications:

• Volume 1 – Children Act 1989: court orders
• Volume 2 – Children Act 1989: care planning, placement and case review
• Volume 3 – Children Act 1989: transition to adulthood for care leavers
• Volume 4 – Children Act 1989: fostering services
• Volume 5 – Children’s homes regulations, including quality standards: guide