The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) and Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2016

Amendment of the Refuges (Children’s Homes and Foster Placements) Regulations 1991

2.—(1) The Refuges (Children’s Homes and Foster Placements) Regulations 1991(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a) in the appropriate place insert—

““remand order” means an order of the court made under section 92 or section 102 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012(2);”, and

(b) in the definition of “responsible person”, after the words “emergency protection order” insert “, remand order”.

(3) In regulation 4(1) (withdrawal of a certificate), for sub-paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c) where a foster parent providing a refuge fails to comply with any provision contained in—

(i) an agreement to which the foster parent is a party concerning matters to which paragraphs 4 to 11 and 15 of Schedule 5 to the Fostering Services (Wales) Regulations 2003(3) apply, or

(ii) an agreement to which the foster parent is a party concerning matters to which paragraphs 4 to 8 of Schedule 6 to the Fostering Services (Wales) Regulations 2003, or paragraphs 1(2) and (5), and 3(7) and (10) of Schedule 3 to the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Wales) Regulations 2015(4) (as the case may be) apply, or

(iii) regulations 24 or 26 of the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Wales) Regulations 2015 (in respect of an emergency or temporary placement);”.

(1)

S.I. 1991/1507.

(2)

2012 c. 10.

(3)

S.I. 2003/237 (W. 35).

(4)

S.I. 2015/1818 (W. 261).