s17 - Children in Need

Children In Need The Local Authority has two important duties with respect to children in need under Section 17:

• To safeguard and promote their welfare;
• To promote wherever possible their upbringing by their families.

The Act defines a child in need as follows as:

• a child who is unlikely to achieve or maintain, or to have the opportunity of achieving or maintaining, a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision of services by a Local Authority; or
• a child whose health or development is likely to be significantly impaired; or further impaired, without the provision for him of such services; or
• a child is disabled