PART 6LOOKED AFTER AND ACCOMMODATED CHILDREN

Regulations about looked after children

I192Regulations about the placing of children with local authority foster parents and prospective adopters

1

Regulations under section 87 may, for example, make provision—

a

with regard to the well-being of children placed with local authority foster parents or prospective adopters;

b

as to the arrangements to be made by local authorities in connection with the health and education of such children;

c

as to the records to be kept by local authorities;

d

for securing that where possible the local authority foster parent or prospective adopter with whom a child is to be placed—

i

is of the same religious persuasion as the child, or

ii

gives an undertaking that the child will be brought up in that religious persuasion;

e

for securing that children placed with local authority foster parents or prospective adopters, and the premises in which they are accommodated, will be supervised and inspected by a local authority and that the children will be removed from those premises if their well-being appears to require it.

2

In this section “prospective adopter” means a person with whom a child is placed under section 81(11).