This section applies where a Children's Trust Board prepares a children and young people's plan in accordance with regulations under section 17.
The persons and bodies whose strategy for co-operation is set out in the plan must have regard to the plan in exercising their functions.
The Board must—
monitor the extent to which the persons and bodies whose strategy for co-operation is set out in the plan are acting in accordance with the plan;
prepare and publish an annual report about the extent to which, during the year to which the report relates, those persons and bodies have acted in accordance with the plan.