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PART 6E+WLOOKED AFTER AND ACCOMMODATED CHILDREN

Regulations about looked after childrenE+W

92Regulations about the placing of children with local authority foster parents and prospective adoptersE+W

(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).

Commencement Information

I1S. 92 in force at 6.4.2016 by S.I. 2016/412, art. 2 (with art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)