# The Children (Short-term Placements)(Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995, Regulation 4: Amendment of the Placement of Children with Parents etc Regulations 1991


In regulation 13 of the Placement of Children with Parents etc Regulations 1991 (application of Regulations to short-term placements)—
(a) for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(1) This regulation applies where a local authority has arranged to place a child in a series of short-term placements with the same person 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.”; and
(b) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(3) Regulation 9(1)(b) shall apply in relation to short-term placements to which this regulation applies as if for paragraphs (1)(b)(i) to (iii) of that regulation there were substituted—
(i) on a day when the child is in fact placed (“a placement day”) within the first seven placement days of a series of short-term placements, and
(ii) thereafter, if the series of short-term placements continues, on placement days falling at intervals of not more than six months or, if the interval between placements exceeds six months, during the next placement.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2015/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/children-short-term-placementsmiscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1995/regulation-4
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