HL Deb 05 November 1975 vol 365 cc1264-5

[No. 117]

Clause 49, page 30, leave out lines 4 to 10, and insert— (2) The following section is inserted after section 33 of the Children Act 1948— '33A.—(1) Section 3(8) of this Act shall apply in relation to children who are not in the care of local authorities under section 1 of this Act but who arc in voluntary homes or are boarded out, as it applies by virtue of subsection (3A) of the said section 1 to children in the care of the local authority, except that in the case of a child who is not in the care of a local authority the references in subsection (3A) to a local authority shall be construed as references to the voluntary organisation in whose care the child is. (2) For the purposes of this section—

  1. (a) a child is boarded out if he is boarded out, by the voluntary organisation in whose care he is, with foster parents to live in their home as a member of their family;
  2. (b) "voluntary home" includes a controlled community home and an assisted community home.""

8.25 p.m

Lord WINTERBOTTOM

My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 117. With the permission of the House I should like to take with it the corresponding Scottish provision, Amendment No. 171. This Amendment is necessary to correct defects in subsection (3C) carried into the Bill on Report in your Lordships' House, reported in the Official Report for 3rd March, 1975, at columns 1170 to 1176. As now amended, the provision more closely matches subsection (3A) by applying to removal of children in the care of voluntary organisations the same time limit for requiring notice as applies to those children who have been in the care of local authorities, and the same penalty for failure to give 28 days' notice. I am sure your Lordships will be pleased to see these improvements. I beg to move.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Winterbottont.)