PART II. -cont. Duty of local same religious persuasion as the child or gives an undertaking that the child will be brought up in that religious persuasion; (d) for securing that children boarded out as aforesaid, and the premises in which they are boarded out, will be supervised and inspected by a local authority and that the children will be removed from those premises if their welfare appears to require it. 15.-(1) A local authority may, and shall in so far as the authorities to Secretary of State so requires, provide, equip and maintain, either within or without their area, homes for the accommodation of children in their care. provide homes. (2) The accommodation provided under the last foregoing subsection by a local authority shall include separate accommodation for the temporary reception of children, with, in particular, the necessary facilities for observation of their physical and mental condition. (3) A local authority may discharge their functions under the foregoing provisions of this section by making arrangements with another local authority for the provision in homes provided by that other local authority of accommodation for children in the care of the first-mentioned local authority; and arrangements under this subsection may contain provisions as to payment by the first-mentioned local authority and other terms upon which the accommodation is to be provided. (4) The Secretary of State may make regulations as to the exercise by local authorities of their functions under this section and the conduct of homes provided thereunder and for securing the welfare of the children in the homes, and regulations under this subsection may in particular— (a) impose requirements as to the accommodation and equipment to be provided in homes and as to the medical arrangements to be made for protecting the health of the children in the homes; (b) impose requirements as to the facilities which are to be given for the children to receive a religious upbringing appropriate to the persuasion to which they belong; (c) require the approval of the Secretary of State to the construction, acquisition or appropriation of buildings with a view to the use thereof for the purposes of homes, or to the doing of anything (whether by way of addition, diminution or alteration) which materially affects the buildings or grounds or other facilities or amenities available for children in the homes; (d) provide for consultation with the Secretary of State as to applicants for appointment to the charge of a home and empower the Secretary of State to prohibit the appointment of any particular applicant therefor except in the cases (if any) in which the regulations dispense with such consultation by reason that the person to be appointed possesses such qualifications as may be prescribed by the regulations; (e) contain provisions for limiting the period during which children may remain in accommodation provided for the temporary reception of children, and may contain different provisions for different description of cases and as respects different descriptions of homes. (5) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that any premises used for the purposes of a home provided under this section are unsuitable therefor, or that the conduct of any such home is not in accordance with regulations made by him under the last foregoing subsection or is otherwise unsatisfactory, he may by notice in writing served on the local authority direct that as from such date as may be specified in the notice the premises shall not be used for the said purposes. (6) A direction given under the last foregoing subsection may at any time be revoked by the Secretary of State. PART II. -cont. 16.-(1) Notwithstanding any agreement made in connection Accommodawith the placing of a child in a voluntary home under this tion of Part of this Act by a local authority, the authority may at any children in time, and shall if required so to do by the Secretary of State homes. or the managers of the home, remove the child from the home. (2) No child in the care of a local authority shall be placed in a voluntary home which does not afford facilities for him to receive a religious upbringing appropriate to the persuasion to which he belongs. voluntary 17. (1) A local authority may, with the consent of the Power of local Secretary of State, procure or assist in procuring the authorities to emigration of any child in their care. arrange for emigration (2) The Secretary of State shall not give his consent under of children. this section unless he is satisfied that emigration would benefit the child, and that suitable arrangements have been or will be made for the child's reception and welfare in the country to which he is going, that the parents or guardian of the child have been consulted or that it is not practicable to consult them, and that the child consents: Provided that where a child is too young to form or express a proper opinion on the matter, the Secretary of State may consent to his emigration notwithstanding that the child PART II. -cont. Burial or cremation of deceased children. is unable to consent thereto in any case where the child is to emigrate in company with a parent, guardian or relative of his, or is to emigrate for the purpose of joining a parent, guardian, relative or friend. (3) In the last foregoing subsection the expression" parents or guardian" shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of section nine of this Act. 18. (1) A local authority may cause to be buried or cremated the body of any deceased child who immediately before his death was in the care of the authority: Provided that the authority shall not cause the body to be cremated where cremation is not in accordance with the practice of the child's religious persuasion. (2) Where a local authority exercise the powers referred to in subsection (1) of this section, they may if at the time of his death the child had not attained the age of sixteen years recover from any parent of the child any expenses incurred by them under the said subsection (1) and not reimbursed 9 & 10 Geo. 6. under subsection (5) of section twenty-two of the National c. 67. Provision of hostels for persons under twenty-one. Insurance Act, 1946 (which enables payments to be made to local authorities out of the National Insurance Fund in respect of the cost of burial or cremation of certain persons). (3) Any sums recoverable by a local authority under subsection (2) of this section shall, without prejudice to any other method for the recovery thereof, be recoverable summarily as a civil debt. (4) Nothing in this section shall affect any enactment regulating or authorising the burial, cremation or anatomical examination of the body of a deceased person. 19.—(1) A local authority may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, provide hostels for persons— (a) who are over compulsory school age but have not attained the age of twenty-one; and (b) who are, or have at any time after ceasing to be of compulsory school age been, in the care of a local authority, for their accommodation near the place where they may be employed, or seeking employment, or in receipt of education or training. (2) A local authority may accommodate in hostels provided under this section persons who fulfil the conditions specified in paragraph (a), but not the conditions specified in paragraph (b), of subsection (1) of this section, as well as persons who fulfil the conditions specified in both those paragraphs; and a local authority, in determining how much hostel accommodation to provide under subsection (1) of this section, shall have regard to the desirability of facilitating the association of persons who fulfil the conditions specified in both those paragraphs with persons who do not. PART II. -cont. towards 20. (1) A local authority may make contributions to the Financial cost of the accommodation and maintenance of any such per- assistance son as is mentioned in subsection (1) of the last foregoing expenses of section, being a person who has attained the age of eighteen, maintenance, in any place near the place where he may be employed, or education or seeking employment, or in receipt of education or training. training of (2) A local authority may make grants to persons who persons over have attained the age of eighteen, but have not attained the age of twenty-one and who immediately before they attained the age of eighteen were in the care of a local authority, to enable them to meet expenses connected with their receiving suitable education or training. (3) Where a person— (a) is engaged in a course of education or training at the (b) having previously been engaged in a course of educa- then if a local authority are at the said time, or were at the eighteen. local 21. The Secretary of State and the Minister of Education, Allocation or in Scotland the Secretary of State, may make regulations of functions for providing, where a local authority under this Part of this as between Act and a local education authority as such have concurrent authority functions, by which authority the functions are to be exer- and local cised, and for determining as respects any functions of a local education education authority specified in the regulations whether a authority. child in the care of a local authority is to be treated as a child of parents of sufficient resources or a child of parents without resources. expenses of 22. A local authority may make payments to any parent or Power of local guardian of, or other person connected with, a child in their authority to care in respect of travelling, subsistence or other expenses defray incurred by the parent, guardian or other person in visiting parents, etc., the child or attending his funeral, if it appears to the visiting authority that the parent, guardian or other person would not children or otherwise be able to visit the child or attend the funeral attending funerals. without undue hardship and that the circumstances warrant the making of the payments. PART III. Contributions children in care of local authority. CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS MAINTENANCE OF CHILDREN. 23.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, in respect of sections eighty-six to eighty-eight of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, and sections ninety to ninety-two of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1937 (which provide for the making of contributions in respect of children committed to the care of a fit person or sent to approved schools and for the payment to local authorities of sums due under affiliation orders or decrees for aliment) shall apply to children received into the care of a local authority under section one of this Act as they apply to children committed to the care of a local authority as a fit person. Persons liable to make (2) Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, to the provisions of the said Acts of 1933 and 1937 as to appeals and to the provisions of the said Act of 1937 as to revocation or variation, a contribution order in respect of a child in the care of a local authority under section one of this Act shall remain in force so long as he remains in the care of a local authority under the said section one. (3) In the application of the said section eighty-eight to children in the care of a local authority under section one of this Act, subsection (4) of the said section eighty-eight (which relates to the duration of affiliation orders) shall have effect as if for paragraphs (a) and (b) thereof there were substituted after the child or young person has ceased to be in the care of a local authority under section one of the Children Act, 1948." 24.-(1) The persons liable under section eighty-six of the said Act of 1933 or section ninety of the said Act of 1937 to contributions. make contributions shall be the persons specified in that behalf in the following provisions of this section, and no others. Repeal of limit to amount of contributions. (2) The father and the mother of a child shall be liable to make contributions in respect of the child, but only so long as the child has not attained the age of sixteen; and no payments shall be required to be made under a contribution order made on the father or mother of a child in respect of any period after the child has attained that age. (3) A person who has attained the age of sixteen and is engaged in remunerative full-time work shall be liable to make contributions in respect of himself. 25. The proviso to subsection (1) of section eighty-seven of the said Act of 1933 and the proviso to subsection (1) of section ninety-one of the said Act of 1937 (under which the aggregate of the weekly amounts payable under contribution |