# The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010, Regulation 2: Interpretation Extent: E+W (1) In these Regulations— “the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989; “the 2012 Act” means the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012; “appropriate person” means— (a)P, where C is to live, or lives, with P; (b)F, where C is to be placed, or is placed, with F; (c)where C is to be placed, or is placed, in a children's home, the person who is registered under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000 or, who is registered as the service provider under Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016, in respect of that home; or (d)where C is to be placed, or is placed, in accordance with other arrangements under section 22C(6)(d), the person who will be responsible for C at the accommodation; “area authority” means the local authority for the area in which C is placed, or is to be placed, where this is different from the responsible authority; “C” means a child who is looked after by the responsible authority ; “care plan” means the plan for the future care of C prepared in accordance with Part 2; “case record” has the meaning given in regulation 49; “connected person” has the meaning given in regulation 24; “detention placement plan” has the meaning given in regulation 47C; “director” means the person in charge of a secure training centre; “director of children's services” means the officer of the responsible authority appointed for the purposes of section 18 of the Children Act 2004 ; “F” means a person who is approved as a local authority foster parent and with whom it is proposed to place C or, as the case may be, with whom C is placed; “fostering service provider” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Fostering Services Regulations; “the Fostering Services Regulations” means the Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011; “full assessment process” has the meaning given in regulation 24(2)(c); “governor” means the person in charge of a young offender institution; “health plan” has the meaning given in regulation 5(b)(i); “independent visitor” means the independent person appointed to be C's visitor under section 23ZB; “IRO” means the independent reviewing officer appointed for C's case under section 25A(1); “long term foster placement” means an arrangement made by the responsible authority for C to be placed with F where— (a)C’s plan for permanence is foster care, (b)F has agreed to act as C’s foster parent until C ceases to be looked after, and (c)the responsible authority has confirmed the nature of the arrangement to F, P and C, and any reference to the responsible authority placing C in such a placement includes, where C is already placed with F, leaving C with F in a long term foster placement; “nominated officer” means a senior officer of the responsible authority nominated in writing by the director of children's services for the purposes of these Regulations; “P” means— (a)a person who is C's parent; (b)a person who is not C's parent but who has parental responsibility for C; or (c) where C is in the care of the responsible authority and there was a child arrangements order which regulated C’s living arrangements in force immediately before the care order was made, a person named in the child arrangements order as a person with whom C was to live; “pathway plan” has the meaning given in section 23E(1)(a); “personal adviser” means the personal adviser arranged for C under paragraph 19C of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act; “personal education plan” has the meaning given in regulation 5(b)(ii); “placement” means— (i)arrangements made by the responsible authority for C to live with P in accordance with section 22C(2), where C is in the care of the responsible authority, or (ii)arrangements made by the responsible authority to provide for C's accommodation and maintenance by any of the means specified in section 22C(6); “placement plan” has the meaning given in regulation 9(1)(a); “plan for permanence” has the meaning given in regulation 5(1)(a); “R” means the representative of the responsible authority who is appointed to visit C in accordance with arrangements made by them under section 23ZA; “registered manager” means the person who is registered under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000 or with Social Care Wales as a manager of a secure children’s home; “remand to local authority accommodation” has the meaning given in section 91(3) of the 2012 Act; “remand to youth detention accommodation” has the meaning given in section 91(4) of the 2012 Act; “responsible authority” means the local authority that looks after C; “secure children’s home” has the meaning given in section 102(11) of the 2012 Act; “secure training centre” has the meaning given in section 43(1)(d) of the Prison Act 1952; “special educational needs” and “special educational provision” have the meanings given in section 579 of the Education Act 1996 ; “temporary approval” has the meaning given in regulation 24(1); “working day” means any day other than— (a)a Saturday or a Sunday, (b)Christmas day or Good Friday, or (c)a bank holiday in England and Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 ; and “young offender institution” has the meaning given in section 43(1)(aa) of the Prison Act 1952. (2) In these Regulations any reference to any document or other record includes any such document or record that is kept or provided in a readily accessible form and includes copies of original documents and electronic methods of recording information. (3) Save as otherwise appears— (a) any reference in these Regulations to a numbered section is a reference to that section in the 1989 Act; and (b) any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation, Part or Schedule is a reference to that regulation, Part or Schedule in these Regulations. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/959/regulation/2 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-england-regulations-2010/regulation-2 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.