Part 1: Children Chapter 3: Other provision relating to children’s social care Section 33: Power to secure proper performance
This section enables the Secretary of State to intervene in a Combined Authority in England established under section 105 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, where children’s social care functions have been transferred from a local authority in England to that Combined Authority, and where such functions are not being performed to an adequate standard.
	Subsection (1) extends, to Combined Authorities, the Secretary of State’s powers of intervention under section 497A of the Education Act 1996, so far as they relate to the functions specified in section 50 of the Children Act 2004. Subsection (2) extends, to Combined Authorities, the Secretary of State’s powers of intervention under section 497A of the Education Act 1996 so far as they relate to the functions specified in section 15 of the Childcare Act 2006.