Regulation 5 Amendment of the Review of Children’s Cases Regulations 1991

For regulation 11 of the Review of Children’s Cases Regulations 1991^f1 (application of Regulations to short periods) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“11

(1)

This regulation applies to cases in which a responsible authority has arranged that a child should be looked after or provided with accommodation for a series of short periods at the same place and the arrangement is such that no single period is to last for more than four weeks and the total duration of the periods is not to exceed 120 days in any period of 12 months.

(2)

Regulation 3 shall not apply to a case to which this regulation applies, but instead—

(a)

each such case is first to be reviewed within three months of the beginning of the first of the short periods;

(b)

if the case continues, the second review shall be carried out not more than six months after the first; and

(c)

thereafter, if the case continues, subsequent reviews shall be carried out not more than six months after the date of the previous review.

(3)

For the purposes of regulation 6, a child shall be treated as continuing to be looked after or provided with accommodation throughout the period that this regulation applies to his case.”