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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-control-and-discipline-regulations-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/87",
  "legislation_title": "The Children’s Homes (Control and Discipline) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-control-and-discipline-regulations-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prohibit the use of certain sanctions, including corporal punishment, in relation to children in community and voluntary homes and require those responsible for such a home to ensure that control of the home is maintained in accordance with good professional practice (regulation 2).\nThey amend the Administration of Children’s Homes Regulations 1951 and the Community Homes Regulations 1972 and introduce changes in relation to control and discipline in such homes, and impose new requirements about records concerning the methods used.\nThey require records to be kept of the use made of any approved sanctions in particular cases (regulation 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/87/note",
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  },
  "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."
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