{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-england-regulations-2001/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-england-regulations-2001/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2874",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Leaving Care) (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Eligible children",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraph 19B(2)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Act, the prescribed period is 13 weeks and the prescribed age is 14.\n(2) A child falling within paragraph (3) is not an eligible child despite falling within paragraph 19B(2) of Schedule 2 to the Act.\n(3) A child falls within this paragraph if he has been looked after by a local authority in circumstances where—\n(a) the local authority has arranged to place him in a pre-planned series of short-term placements, none of which individually exceeds four weeks (even though they may amount in all to the prescribed period); and\n(b) at the end of each such placement the child returns to the care of his parent, or a person who is not a parent but who has parental responsibility for him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2874/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:30:19.571391+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."
}