English to Russian Social Sciences Education / Pedagogy

Eligible children

Defined in paragraph 19B of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act, and regulation 40 of the Care Planning Regulations as a child who is:

Looked after;
Aged 16 or 17; and
Has been looked after by a local authority for a period of 13 weeks, or periods amounting in total to 13 weeks, which began after he reached 14 and ended after he reached 16.


Relevant children

Defined in section 23A(2) of the 1989 Act as a child who is:

Not looked after;
Aged 16 or 17; and
Was, before he last ceased to be looked after, an eligible child.
Regulation 3 of the Care Leavers Regulations prescribes a further category of relevant child who is:

Not looked after;
Aged 16 or 17; and
At the time he attained the age of 16 was detained (i.e. detained in a remand centre, a young offenders institution or a secure training centre, or any other centre pursuant to a Court order), or in a hospital, and immediately before he was detained or in hospital he had been looked after by a local authority for a period or periods amounting in all to at least 13 weeks which began after he reached the age of 14.
Regulation 3 of the Care Leavers Regulations also provides that a child who has lived for a continuous period of six months or more with:

His parent;
Someone who is not his parent but who has parental responsibility for him; or
Where he is in care and there was a residence order in force immediately before the care order was made, a person in whose favour the residence order was made then that child is not a relevant child despite falling within section 23A(2). Where those living arrangements break down and the child ceases to live with the person concerned, the child is to be treated as a relevant child.

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