PART 6LOOKED AFTER AND ACCOMMODATED CHILDREN

Leaving care, accommodation and fostering

109Support for category 2 young people

1

The responsible local authority for a category 2 young person must safeguard and promote that person’s well-being and, unless it is satisfied that the person’s well-being does not require it, support the person by—

a

maintaining the person,

b

providing the person with, or maintaining the person in, suitable accommodation, and

c

providing support of such other descriptions as may be specified in regulations.

2

Support under subsection (1) may be in kind or in cash.

3

Regulations may make provision about the meaning of “suitable accommodation” and in particular about the suitability of landlords or other providers of accommodation.

4

Section 78(3) applies in relation to any decision by a local authority for the purposes of this section as it applies in relation to the decisions referred to in that section.