{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-secure-accommodation-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-secure-accommodation-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1988",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Secure Accommodation) (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-secure-accommodation-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Duty to inform parents and others of intention to place child in secure accommodation",
  "text": "Where a local authority intends to apply to a court to place a child whom it is looking after in secure accommodation, it must, as far as is reasonably practicable, notify, as soon as possible—\n(a) the child’s parents;\n(b) any person who is not a parent but has parental responsibility for the child;\n(c) the child’s independent visitor, if one has been appointed; and\n(d) any other person who that local authority considers should be informed.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1988/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:10.710666+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."
}