{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1818",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Chapter—\n“approved” (“cymeradwy”) means a person has been approved as a local authority foster parent either—\n(a)in accordance with the Fostering Regulations; or\n(b)in accordance with the Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011 ; or\n(c)in the case of a placement of C with a particular prospective adopter (“A”), in accordance with regulation 28; or\n(d)in a case of a placement of C with a connected person on a temporary basis, in accordance with regulation 26; ...\n...\n“independent fostering service” (“gwasanaeth maethu annibynnol”) means—\n(a)a fostering service within the meaning of paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016, and\n(b)a fostering agency within the meaning of section 4(4)(a) of the Care Standards Act 2000;\n“registered provider” (“darparwr cofrestredig”) means—\n(a)a regulated fostering services provider within the meaning of regulation 2 of the Fostering Regulations, and\n(b)a registered person within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011.\n(2) Where C is placed jointly with two persons each of whom is approved as a local authority foster parent , any reference in these Regulations to a local authority foster parent is to be interpreted as referring equally to both such persons and any requirement to be satisfied by or relating to a particular local authority foster parent must be satisfied by, or treated as relating to, both of them.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22(1) omitted (29.4.2019) by virtue of The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/237), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 25(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22(1) inserted (29.4.2019) by The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/237), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 25(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2011/581."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "“Local authority foster parent” is defined in section 197(1) of the 2014 Act as (a) an English local authority foster parent approved in accordance with regulations made by virtue of paragraph 12F of Schedule 2 to the Children Act 1989 (regulations providing for approval of English local authority foster parents); (b) a Welsh local authority foster parent approved in accordance with regulations made by virtue of section 93 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (regulations providing for approval of Welsh local authority foster parents)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1818/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:39.085646+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."
}