{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-coronavirus-amendment-no2-regulations-2020/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-coronavirus-amendment-no2-regulations-2020/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/909",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-coronavirus-amendment-no2-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011",
  "text": "(1) The Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 26 (assessment of prospective foster parent)—\n(a) for the opening words of paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) Subject to paragraphs (2A) and (3), where the fostering service provider have obtained all the information set out in paragraph (1A) and have not given the notification in paragraph (1B), the fostering service provider must—”, and\n(b) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) The fostering service provider may comply with paragraph (2)(a) even if the information required by paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 has yet to be obtained.\n(2B) A fostering service provider must keep a record of any decision made in accordance with paragraph (2A).”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2011/581. Amended by S.I. 2013/984 and S.I 2020/445. The amendments made by S.I. 2020/445 cease to have effect on 25th September 2020 subject to savings provisions, including a savings provision relating to amendments to regulation 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 25.9.2020, see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/909/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:26:25.069105+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."
}