{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-short-term-placementsmiscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-short-term-placementsmiscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2015",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Short-term Placements)(Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-short-term-placementsmiscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Foster Placement (Children) Regulations 1991",
  "text": "(1) The Foster Placement (Children) Regulations 1991 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) For regulation 9 (short-term placements) there shall be substituted the following regulation—\n“9 (1) This regulation applies where a responsible authority has arranged to place a child in a series of short-term placements with the same foster parent and the arrangement is such that no single placement is to last for more than four weeks and the total duration of the placements is not to exceed 120 days in any period of 12 months.\n(2) A series of short-term placements to which this regulation applies may be treated as a single placement for the purposes of this Part and Part IV of these Regulations but with the modifications set out in the following provisions of this regulation.\n(3) Regulation 6(1)(a)(i) and (ii) shall apply as if it required arrangements to be made for visits to the child on a day when he is in fact placed (“a placement day”)—\n(a) within the first seven placement days of a series of short-term placements, and\n(b) thereafter, if the series of placements continues, at intervals of not more than six months or, if the interval between placements exceeds six months, during the next placement.\n(4) Regulation 15(1)(a) shall apply as if it required arrangements to be made for visits to the child on a placement day, within the first seven placement days of a series of short-term placements.”.\n(3) In regulation 10 (placements outside England and Wales), for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“10 (1) A voluntary organisation may not place a child for whose placement it is responsible outside the British Islands and notwithstanding regulation 8, a voluntary organisation may not place a child outside the British Islands on behalf of a local authority.”.\n(4) In regulation 16 (requirements in respect of visits) the words “(but subject to regulation 9(2))” shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/910."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“British Islands” are defined in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) as meaning the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man."
    }
  ],
  "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/1995/2015/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:04:33.661083+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."
}