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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accommodation-of-children-charge-and-controlregulations-1988/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accommodation-of-children-charge-and-controlregulations-1988/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2183",
  "legislation_title": "The Accommodation of Children (Charge and Control)Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accommodation-of-children-charge-and-controlregulations-1988",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In respect of a person with whom it is proposed the child should be placed—\n(a) age;\n(b) health;\n(c) personality;\n(d) marital status and particulars of any previous marriage;\n(e) previous experience of looking after and capacity to look after children and capacity to care for the child;\n(f) details of two persons nominated by him who are able to provide personal reference for him;\n(g) the result of any application to have a child boarded out or placed with him or to adopt a child or of any application for registration under section 1 of the Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act 1948 and details of any prohibition on his being a childminder or looking after foster children;\n(h) details of children in his household, whether living there or not;\n(i) religion and degree of observance, cultural background and racial origin;\n(j) past and present employment and leisure activities and interests;\n(k) details of the living standards and particulars of accommodation of his household;\n(l) any criminal convictions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1948 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2183/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:52:49.788471+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}