Children and Young Persons Act 1963

14Duty of parents to notify changes of address to approved school or fit person

(1)The parent of a person who is detained in an approved school or is in the care of a fit person in pursuance of an order under the principal Act shall keep the managers of the approved school or, as the case may be, the fit person informed of the parent's address.

(2)Where a person is transferred from one approved school to another the managers of the school from which he is transferred shall, where possible, inform his parents of the transfer; and until his parent has been so informed, the parent's duty under subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to be duly discharged if he keeps the managers of the first-mentioned school informed of his address.

(3)Where, in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section, the managers of an approved school or a local authority are informed of a change in a parent's address they shall give notice of the new address to the local authority in whose area the parent was residing before the change.

(4)A parent of a person who, knowing that that person is detained in an approved school or in the care of a fit person as mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, fails to comply with that subsection shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds; but in any proceedings under this subsection it shall be a defence to prove that the defendant was residing at the same address as the other parent and had reasonable cause to believe that the other parent had kept the managers or fit person informed of the address of both.

(5)Section 87(5) of the principal Act (which requires a person on whom a contribution order has been made to notify changes in his address) shall cease to have effect.