s custody, pathway planning must continue. The young person must be visited on a regular basis and it is good practice for the first visit to take place within ten working days of their being placed. The role must not be fulfilled by a YOT worker. The establishment should facilitate the visits, and PAs should be afforded the same status as legal visitors. The responsible authority must liaise with criminal justice services to support the young person emotionally, practically and financially whilst in custody. All young people will require the responsible authority to contribute to the plan for their resettlement on release. It will be good practice wherever possible to carry out a review of the pathway plan at least a month before release in order to give sufficient time for pre-release planning. For a relevant child, it should be exceptional for a review not to take place. 19 Once section 23ZA of the Children Act 1989 is implemented fully, the Children Act 1989 (Visits to Former Looked After Children in Detention) (England) Regulations will provide that those looked after children who do not become “relevant children” on entering custody and therefore will not be entitled to leaving care support (since they are children aged 16 or 17 who have been looked after for less than 13 weeks since the age of 14 (perhaps because they were remanded into local authority accommodation immediately prior to sentence); or, because they will leave custody before their 16th birthday), will be entitled to visits from the local authority that formerly looked after them. 20 Section 90/91 of the Powers of the Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 allows the Crown Court to impose longer sentences where a young person is convicted for a serious crime. If a young person is convicted of murder 