Care Standards Act 2000 Explanatory Notes

Fostering

Section 110  Extension of Part IX to school children during holidays

272.The effect of this section is to apply existing provision, whereby a child who stays at an independent boarding school for more than two weeks in the school holidays is treated as a privately fostered child, to all schools. The local authority must be notified of the child’s presence in the school and has to satisfy itself as to his welfare.

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