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These Regulations make a minor amendment to The Children (Leaving Care) (Wales) Regulations 2001. The Principal Regulations prescribe certain additional categories of children and young people for whom Local Authorities must provide services and certain categories of children who are excluded from eligibility for the services. These Regulations make a minor alteration to exclude certain children and young persons from one of the additional categories. These are children who would be eligible as "relevant children" (as defined in section 23A of the Children Act 1989) by virtue of being in hospital or in a form of detention on attaining the age of 16 and by having had a qualifying period of accommodation by a local authority, but where the qualifying period is made up entirely of short placements after which the child returned home.
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