Part 1Children’s care system
Chapter 3Provision of children’s care services
Register of foster carers
35Register of foster carers: interpretation
“foster carer” means a person approved as suitable to be a foster carer in accordance with the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/210) (and references to a person being approved or not approved as a foster carer, or to a person’s approval being terminated, are to be construed accordingly),
“fostering service” means a service which is provided by—
(a)
a local authority under paragraph (a) of section 26(1) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (fostering of children looked after by a local authority), or
(b)
a person other than a local authority and which consists of, or includes, the making of arrangements for or in connection with the performance of functions assigned to a local authority—
- (i)
under that paragraph, or
- (ii)
by virtue of section 5(2) to (4) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (regulations relating to performance of functions assigned to a local authority under that Act),
“register of foster carers” means the register established and maintained under section 30(1),
“relevant person” means—
(a)
where the Scottish Ministers have authorised an organisation to perform the Scottish Ministers’ functions in relation to the register under section 33, that person,
(b)
otherwise, the Scottish Ministers.