These Regulations replace the Secure Accommodation (No. 2) Regulations 1983 and the Secure Accommodation (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1986 in consequence of the bringing into force of section 25 of the Children Act 1989 and the repeal of section 21A of the Child Care Act 1980 (c. 5) which it replaces. The main changes include the extension of the secure accommodation provisions to children accommodated by health or local education authorities or National Health Service trusts or in residential care, nursing or mental nursing homes. The Regulations also prohibit for the first time the use of voluntary homes and registered children’s homes for restricting the liberty of children.