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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arrangements-to-look-after-children-scotland-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3262",
  "legislation_title": "The Arrangements to Look After Children (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arrangements-to-look-after-children-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision with respect to the duties of local authorities for children who are looked after.\nRegulation 3 provides that a local authority will make a care plan for each child looked after by them. Regulations 4 and 5 deal with the considerations to which a local authority must have regard in making a care plan and regulation 6 concerns the matters to be covered in a care plan.\nMinimum requirements are specified regarding notifications of placements and incidents, reviews, records, health assessment, and monitoring (regulations 7-15, 18 and 19).\nThe Regulations also make provision for a looked after child to be cared for by his own parents in certain circumstances (regulation 16). Regulation 17 sets out minimum requirements for planned short term placements.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3262/note",
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  "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."
}