Commentary on Sections Children in long term care Section 17: Children in long-term care: notification to appropriate officer etc.
89.Section 17 amends section 85 and 86 to ensure that the notifications described above are sent to the local authority’s director of children’s services (in England) or lead director for children and young people’s services (in Wales). It also inserts a new subsection into section 85 of the 1989 Act to make it clear that responsibility for providing services under the 1989 Act falls on the local authority in whose area the child was ordinarily resident immediately before the child was accommodated.