The Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011

Behaviour management and children missing from foster parent's homeE+W

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13.—(1) The fostering service provider must prepare and implement a written policy on acceptable measures of control, restraint and discipline of children placed with foster parents.

(2) The fostering service provider must take all reasonable steps to ensure that—

(a)no form of corporal punishment is used on any child placed with a foster parent,

(b)no child placed with a foster parent is subject to any measure of control, restraint or discipline which is excessive or unreasonable, and

(c)restraint is used on a child only where it is necessary to prevent injury to the child or other persons, or serious damage to property.

[F1(3) The fostering service provider must prepare and implement a policy, which is agreed with the local police, setting out—

(a)the measures to be followed to prevent children placed with foster parents from going missing from their placement, and

(b)the procedure to be followed when a child is missing from a foster parent’s home without permission.]

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