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Foster parent

Someone who is entrusted by a local authority to provide temporary or interim care of a child in respect of whom the local authority have secured a care order or where the parent or parents have asked for help and/or support for a period.

Global or ‘Segal’ orders

A global or ‘Segal’ order is an order for spousal periodical payments where credit is required to be given for any sums payable under a statutory child support calculation. The court makes an order in a global amount of spousal periodical payments, to be reduced pro tanto in the event of a maintenance calculation by the Child Maintenance Service. Such orders may be made by the court where the parties have not agreed what the child maintenance should be (and therefore cannot enter into a written agreement and have that agreement converted into a consent order) but the court does not have jurisdiction to make an order for periodical payments for a child. The approach was approved by the Court of Appeal in Dorney-Kingdom v Dorney-Kingdom, when Thorpe LJ said that such an order is ‘just within the bounds of legitimacy, since it is no sort of ouster of or challenge to the jurisdiction of the Agency, but merely a holding until such time as the Agency can carry out its proper function. But it seems to me absolutely crucial that if legitimacy is to be preserved, there must be a substantial ingredient of spousal support in the Segal order’ (para [15]).

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Office for Nuclear Development: was established to facilitate new nuclear investment in the UK by: (a) enabling operators to build and operate new nuclear power stations in the UK from the earliest possible date and to enable new nuclear to make the fullest contribution it is capable of, with no public subsidy, and with unnecessary obstacles removed; (b) building and maintaining the UK as the best market in the world for companies to do business in nuclear power; (c) creating and supporting a globally competitive UK supply chain, focusing on high value added activities to take advantage of the UK and worldwide nuclear programme; and (d) supporting and advising the Secretary of State on nuclear safety, security and safeguards, ensure continued progress with waste management and decommissioning and to implement the Governments Global Threat Reduction Programme (non- proliferation). It was created by John Hutton in 2008 and was the first of the “Offices” in the energy policy area. The founding Chief Executive was Mark Higson and the Expert Chair was Dr Tim Stone CBE.
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