Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on 31 March 2014, are made under the Care of Children Act 2004 (the Act).

The effect of these regulations is that the Parenting Through Separation programme described in regulation 3 is the programme,—

• referred to in section 46O of the Act, that a party to an application for a parenting order may be directed to attend:

• referred to in section 47B(2) of the Act, that an applicant is required to have undertaken within the 2 years that precede the filing of his or her application for a parenting order or for a variation of a parenting order.