Brayne & Carr: Law for Social Workers 10e 
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Chapter 8
More extensive information on Part 3 of the Children Act can be found in specialist texts on the Children Act 1989 such as:
R. White, P. Carr, and N. Lowe, The Children Act in Practice (3rd edn., Butterworths, 2002).
Advice for young people in care is provided by: Voice - a national organization offering advice, help, and advocacy to young people and care leavers, www.voiceyp.org.
Carelaw - nchacti01.uuhost.uk.uu.net/carelaw - this web site was launched to help and advise young people currently in local authority care or preparing to leave care. The site has been created by NCH with Resolution (formerly Solicitors Family Law Association).
A useful and interesting article on the scope of Part 3 of the Children Act 1989 is John Murphy, 'Children in need: the limits of local authority accountability' [2003] 23 Legal Studies 103.
The limitations of s. 17 are made clear in a case commentary on 'R (LM and MM) v LB Lambeth - the provision of services for disabled children' (2007) 19(4) CFLQ 496 (Dec.).
Children in need and housing
D. Cowan (2004) Child & Family Law Quarterly 16.3 (331). In a case commentary on the House of Lords case R (G) v Barnet LBC, discussed at the beginning of the chapter, Cowan considers Lambeth's policy, which survived the House of Lords ruling, of offering accommodation only to children in need, without their family. He argues that these decisions make the general duty in s. 17(1) irrelevant; also, paradoxically, housing legislation gives greater protection to households with children than the Children Act 1989.
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