1. PART 1: ADOPTION AND CONTACT
1.1. Adoption
1.2. Contact between prescribed persons and adopted person’s relatives
1.3. Placement of looked after children with prospective adopters
1.4. Repeal of requirement to give due consideration to ethnicity: England
1.5. Recruitment, assessment and approval of prospective adopters
1.6. Adoption support services: personal budgets
1.7. Adoption support services: duty to provide information
1.8. The Adoption and Children Act Register
2. PART 2: FAMILY JUSTICE
2.1. Family mediation information and assessment meetings
2.2. Welfare of the child: parental involvement
2.3. Child arrangements orders
2.4. Control of expert evidence, and of assessments, in children proceedings
2.5. Care, supervision and other family proceedings: time limits and timetables
2.6. Care plans
2.7. Care proceedings and care plans: regulations: procedural requirements
2.8. Repeal of restrictions on divorce and dissolution etc where there are children
2.9. Repeal of uncommenced provisions of Part 2 of the Family Law Act 1996
3. PART 3: CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN ENGLAND WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OR DISABILITIES
3.1. Local authority functions: general principles
3.2. Special educational needs etc
3.3. Identifying children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
3.4. Children and young people for whom a local authority is responsible
3.5. Education, health and care provision: integration and joint commissioning
3.6. Review of education and care provision
3.7. Co-operation and assistance
3.8. Information and advice
3.9. Mainstream education
3.10. Assessment
3.11. Education, health and care plans
3.12. Appeals, mediation and dispute resolution
3.13. Special educational provision: functions of local authorities
3.14. Special educational provision: functions of governing bodies and others
3.15. Detained persons
3.16. Information to improve well-being of children and young people with SEN
3.17. Code of practice
3.18. Supplementary
4. PART 4: CHILDCARE ETC
4.1. Childminder agencies
4.2. Inspections at request of providers of childcare to young children
4.3. Repeal of local authority’s duty to assess sufficiency of childcare provision
4.4. Discharge of authority’s duty to secure free early years provision
4.5. Governing bodies: provision of community facilities
4.6. Childcare costs scheme: preparatory expenditure
5. PART 5: WELFARE OF CHILDREN
5.1. Child performances
5.2. Tobacco, nicotine products and smoking
5.3. Young carers and parent carers
5.4. Staying put arrangements
5.5. Educational achievement of looked after children
5.6. Pupils with medical conditions
5.7. Local authority functions: intervention
5.8. Regulation of children’s homes etc
5.9. Free school lunches
6. PART 6: THE CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONER
6.1. Primary function of the Children’s Commissioner
6.2. Provision by Commissioner of advice and assistance to certain children
6.3. Commissioner’s powers to enter premises
6.4. Provision of information to Commissioner
6.5. Advisory board
6.6. Business plans
6.7. Annual reports
6.8. Children living away from home or receiving social care
6.9. Children’s Commissioner: minor and consequential amendments
6.10. Repeal of requirement to appoint Children’s Rights Director
7. PART 7: STATUTORY RIGHTS TO LEAVE AND PAY
7.1. Shared parental leave
7.2. Exclusion or curtailment of other statutory rights to leave
7.3. Statutory shared parental pay
7.4. Exclusion or curtailment of other statutory rights to pay
7.5. Other statutory rights
7.6. Further amendments
8. PART 8: TIME OFF WORK: ANTE-NATAL CARE ETC
8.1. Time off work to accompany to ante-natal appointments
8.2. Time off work to attend adoption appointments
8.3. Right not to be subjected to detriment: agency workers
8.4. Time off work for ante-natal care: increased amount of award
9. PART 9: RIGHT TO REQUEST FLEXIBLE WORKING
9.1. Removal of requirement to be a carer
9.2. Dealing with applications
9.3. Complaints to employment tribunals
9.4. Review of sections 131 to 133
10. PART 10: GENERAL PROVISIONS
10.1. Orders and regulations
10.2. Consequential amendments, repeals and revocations
10.3. Transitional, transitory or saving provision
10.4. Financial provision
10.5. Commencement
10.6. Short title and extent
Schedule 1 — The Adoption and Children Act Register
Schedule 2 — Child arrangements orders: amendments
Schedule 3 — Special educational needs: consequential amendments
Schedule 4 — Childminder agencies: amendments
Schedule 5 — Children’s Commissioner: minor and consequential amendments
Schedule 6 — Repeal of requirement to appoint Children’s Rights Director: transfer schemes
Schedule 7 — Statutory rights to leave and pay: further amendments
