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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-7/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-7/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/41",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Schedule, a person fosters a child if—\n(a) he is a local authority foster parent in relation to the child;\n(b) he is a foster parent with whom the child has been placed by a voluntary organisation; or\n(c) he fosters the child privately.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 1 wholly in force at 14.10.1991 see s. 108(2)(3) and S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/41/schedule/7/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}