Commentary on Sections Part 1 .Social Care Chapter 2 .Miscellaneous Amendments in Relation to Social Care Services, Social Care Workers and Local Authority Social Care Functions Section 21 – Accommodation of children
85.Section 21 amends sections 76 and 81 of the 2014 Act to clarify the scope of references in those sections to “child arrangements orders”. The references were inserted as consequential amendments when residence orders (to which these provisions previously referred) were replaced by child arrangements orders (see section 12 and Schedule 2 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6)). However, child arrangements orders cover a wider range of matters than residence orders, and include contact arrangements for children. The Act therefore amends the references to “child arrangements orders” in sections 76 and 81 of the 2014 Act to clarify that reference to child arrangements orders only relate to those orders which specify the person with whom a child should live.