Section 17 of Children act 1989, the local authority responsibility is to safeguard and promote the welfare of children within the needs they need for. The local authority has to promote the upbringing of needing children by their families. This is done by providing a range level of services for the child’s needs.
The services provided by the authority in the exercise of functions conferred and then by this section may be provided for the family of a particular child in needs or for any member of the family . This is provided with a view to safeguarding or promoting the child’s welfare.
The section 17 of children act is used when a child is not likely to maintain or have the opportunity of a standard health or development without the help from the service or local authority. The section also uses the definition to a “child in need”.
“His health and development is likely to be significantly impaired, or further impaired, without the provision for him of such survives or if they are disables”. In this section the word disable is when a child is blind, deaf or dumb or suffers any mental disorders of any kind.
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