PART 6LOOKED AFTER AND ACCOMMODATED CHILDREN
Regulations about looked after children
I192Regulations about the placing of children with local authority foster parents and prospective adopters
1
Regulations under section 87 may, for example, make provision—
a
with regard to the well-being of children placed with local authority foster parents or prospective adopters;
b
as to the arrangements to be made by local authorities in connection with the health and education of such children;
c
as to the records to be kept by local authorities;
d
for securing that where possible the local authority foster parent or prospective adopter with whom a child is to be placed—
i
is of the same religious persuasion as the child, or
ii
gives an undertaking that the child will be brought up in that religious persuasion;
e
for securing that children placed with local authority foster parents or prospective adopters, and the premises in which they are accommodated, will be supervised and inspected by a local authority and that the children will be removed from those premises if their well-being appears to require it.
2
In this section “prospective adopter” means a person with whom a child is placed under section 81(11).