{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-private-arrangements-for-fostering-regulations-2005/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-private-arrangements-for-fostering-regulations-2005/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1533",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Private Arrangements for Fostering) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-private-arrangements-for-fostering-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Action to be taken by local authority on receipt of notification about a child being fostered privately",
  "text": "(1) Where a local authority have received a notification under regulation 5 or 6 they must for the purposes of discharging their functions under section 67(1) of the Act, arrange for an officer of the authority within seven working days , or as soon as is reasonably practicable, to—\n(a) visit the premises where the child is being cared for and accommodated;\n(b) visit and speak to the private foster carer and to all members of his household;\n(c) visit and speak to the child, alone unless the officer considers it inappropriate;\n(d) speak to and, if it is practicable to do so, visit every parent of or person with parental responsibility for the child; and\n(e) establish such matters listed in Schedule 3 as appear to the officer to be relevant.\n(2) Having completed his functions under paragraph (1) the officer must make a written report to the local authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1) inserted (temp.) (24.4.2020) by virtue of The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/445), regs. 1(2), 5(3) (with Pts. 12, 13)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1533/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:57:49.580136+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."
}