Regina (SO) v London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (The Children’s Society intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted October 22nd, 2010 in asylum, children, housing, law reports, local government by sally

Regina (SO) v London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (The Children’s Society intervening) [2010] EWCA Civ 634 1101; [2010] WLR (D) 257

“Local authorities enjoyed, by virtue of s 23C(4)(c) of the Children Act 1989, the power to accommodate a person who had formerly been a child in care and was therefore a former ‘relevant child’ within s 23A of the Act, and a local authority was not entitled, when considering whether the welfare of a former ‘relevant child’ who was also an asylum seeker required that he be accommodated by it, to take into account the possibility of support by the National Asylum Support Service.”

WLR Daily, 20th October 2010

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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