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Parental responsibility under the Children Act 1989: definition, scope, case law and key issues (education, religion, medical consent, surnames, contact, relocation, passports, adoption, guardianship) in England and Wales
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This Practice Note outlines the concept of Parental Responsibility for children under section 3 of the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989). It describes what sits within the Scope of parental responsibility and how the courts have read this concept in connection with matters such as education, religious upbringing, consent to medical treatment, changing a child’s surname, and removing a child from the jurisdiction.
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Parental responsibility relates to the care and raising of a child until they reach adulthood. Under the ChA 1989, parental responsibility comprises all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and Authority that, in law, a parent holds in respect of their child and the child’s property. It also embraces the rights, powers and duties that a Guardian of the child’s estate (appointed before the ChA 1989 commenced) possessed in relation to the child’s property. Those rights extend to receiving or recovering, in the guardian’s own name for the child’s benefit, property of any description and wherever located to which the child is entitled to receive or recover. It does not extend to rights of succession to a child’s property...
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