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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-36.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/36",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Appointment of an independent visitor",
  "text": "(1) As part of its arrangements for supervising C's well-being, the responsible authority must consider whether it is appropriate to appoint an independent visitor to visit C wherever C is living in any case where—\n(a) C has not lived with a parent or a person with parental responsibility during the previous 12 months,\n(b) contact between C and a parent or a person with parental responsibility has not occurred or has been infrequent, or\n(c) it would be in C's best interests to do so.\n(2) When making a decision under paragraph (1), the responsible authority must consider—\n(a) whether the appointment of an independent visitor would make a positive contribution to C's well-being;\n(b) where C is placed at a distance from home, or where C is placed in the area of another local authority or a local authority in England, whether the placement makes it difficult to maintain contact arrangements;\n(c) whether C is able to go out independently or whether C experiences difficulties in communicating or with building positive relationships;\n(d) whether C is likely to engage in behaviour which may put C at risk of forming inappropriate relationships;\n(e) where C is placed in a children's home, whether C's well-being would be promoted by the opportunity to establish a relationship with an independent visitor.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1818/regulation/36",
    "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."
}