The Secure Accommodation (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1986

(SI 1986 No. 1591)

These regulations amend the Secure Accommodation (No. 2) Regulations 1983 and make provision for a child who is a ward of court to be placed or kept in secure accommodation only pursuant to the direction of a judge exercising wardship jurisdiction without the involvement of a juvenile court as presently required by regulation 10(1) of the principle regulations.  Consequential amendments are made to the principle regulations relating to placement of children under 10 in such accommodation (Regulation 2), restriction of liberty (Regulation 4), reviews (Regulation 5) and information to be recorded (Regulation 6(a)).

The Regulations also make provision for recording details of occasions when children are locked on their own in a room in the secure accommodation (Regulation 6(b)) and for Section 21A of the Child Care Act 1980 (secure accommodation) to apply to children committed to care under inherent wardship jurisdiction (Regulation 3) and children committed to care by virtue of Section 34(5) of the Children Act 1975 (interim orders in custodianship) (Regulation 7) in addition to those children to whom Section 21A already applies.