Section 14B - Special guardianship orders

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The Explanatory Notes to the 2002 Act state:

“Section 14B provides that before making a special guardianship order the court must consider whether or not to vary or discharge any other existing order made under section 8 of the Children Act 1989 (such as a contact order or residence order) and also whether a contact order (for example, to enable continued contact with the child's birth parents) should be made at the same time as the special guardianship order.