Short-term placements in kinship care
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14.—(1) Where paragraph (2) applies a series of planned short-term placements with a kinship carer made in accordance with regulation 11 may be treated as a single placement with a kinship carer for the purposes of these Regulations.
(2) This paragraph applies where–
(a)all the placements occur within a period which does not exceed 12 months;
(b)no single placement is for a duration of more than 4 weeks; and
(c)the total duration of the placements does not exceed 120 days.