{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/41",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulations under section 23(2)(a) may, in particular, make provision—\n(a) with regard to the welfare of children placed with local authority foster parents;\n(b) as to the arrangements to be made by local authorities in connection with the health and education of such children;\n(c) as to the records to be kept by local authorities;\n(d) for securing that a child is not placed with a local authority foster parent unless that person is for the time being approved as a local authority foster parent by such local authority as may be prescribed;\n(e) for securing that where possible the local authority foster parent with whom a child is to be placed is—\n(i) of the same religious persuasion as the child; or\n(ii) gives an undertaking that the child will be brought up in that religious persuasion;\n(f) for securing that children placed with local authority foster parents, and the premises in which they are accommodated, will be supervised and inspected by a local authority and that the children will be removed from those premises if their welfare appears to require it;\n(g) as to the circumstances in which local authorities may make arrangements for duties imposed on them by the regulations to be discharged, on their behalf.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 paras. 12A-12G substituted (prosp.) for Sch. 2 paras. 12-14 by Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (c. 23), ss. 8(2), 44, Sch. 1 para. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 12 modified (temp.) (12.2.2009 for E. and 31.3.2010 for W.) by Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (c. 23), ss. 8(3), 44, Sch. 2 para. 1; S.I. 2009/268, art. 3(1)(b); S.I. 2010/749, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 12 wholly in force at 14.10.1991 see s. 108(2)(3) and S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/41/schedule/2/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T07:28:21.051680+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."
}