The move follows a report by the joint Parliamentary committee on the Bill, which called for it to ensure care planning reflects the "multi-disciplinary, regularly reviewed, advocacy-based" procedures of the Children Act 1989.
Nancy Kelley, senior policy officer for Barnardo's, said that despite the vulnerability of children taken into compulsory care, under current 1983 mental health legislation there was no requirement for appropriate local authority staff to be contacted when they were examined, and for a child-in-need assessment to take place.
Although the provision for this existed in the Children Act 1989, she said if there was no requirement for it to happen when the new Bill went through, children's wider needs would continue to go unmet.
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