{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-protection-from-offenders-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-protection-from-offenders-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1997/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2308",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Protection from Offenders) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-protection-from-offenders-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Foster Placement (Children) Regulations 1991",
  "text": "(1) The Foster Placement (Children) Regulations 1991 are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In regulation 1 (interpretation), at the end of paragraph (2) insert—\n““specified offence” means an offence specified in Schedule 4”.\n(3) In regulation 3 (approval of foster parents)—\n(a) in paragraph (2), for “Subject to paragraph (3)” substitute “Subject to paragraphs (3), (4) and (4A)”; and\n(b) after paragraph (4) insert the following new paragraph—\n“(4A) A person shall not be regarded as suitable to act as a foster parent if he or any member of his household over the age of 18—\n(a) has been convicted of a specified offence; or\n(b) has been cautioned by a constable in respect of any such offence which, at the time the caution was given, he admitted.”.\n(4) In Schedule 1 (information as to prospective foster parent and other members of his household and family) for paragraph 9 substitute the following paragraph—\n“9 Any previous criminal convictions and any cautions given by a constable in respect of criminal offences relating either to him or other member of his household over the age of 18.”.\n(5) After Schedule 3 insert as Schedule 4 the Schedule to these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/910, amended by S.I. 1995/2015."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "wsi/2003/237",
      "affecting_title": "The Fostering Services (Wales) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/57",
      "affecting_title": "The Fostering Services Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2308/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:51:16.041139+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."
}