Commentary on Sections Part 6 - Looked after and Accommodated Children
241.This Part replaces the majority of the powers and duties of local authorities in Wales to provide support for children and families set out in Part 3 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Children Act 1989 (‘the 1989 Act’). Part 3 and Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act will continue to apply in relation to local authorities in England but will no longer apply in relation to Wales.
242.The rights and duties which contained in section 17 of the 1989 Act – provision of services for children in need, their families and others - are not replicated in this Part but are contained within the provision made in Parts 2, 3 and 4 of the Act, although the concept of a child “in need” is not replicated within this Act.
243.The concept of welfare as a basis upon which decisions are made in respect of children which runs through the 1989 Act is replaced in this Act with the requirement to promote the child’s “well-being”. Well-being is defined in section 2 of the Act and applies in relation to both children and adults for the purposes of the Act; it includes any of the eight matters set out in section 2(2) and in relation to a child will also include the child’s –