{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991/regulation-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991/regulation-32.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1506",
  "legislation_title": "Children’s Homes Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Circumstances necessitating visits by Local Authorities",
  "text": "Every local authority shall arrange for one of their officers to visit every child who is accommodated within their area in a registered children’s home or in a voluntary home in any of the following circumstances and within the periods specified—\n(a) where they are informed that a child not in the care of, nor looked after by, any local authority has been placed in such accommodation, within 28 days of being so informed;\n(b) where the voluntary organisation or the person carrying on a registered children’s home providing such accommodation makes representations to the local authority that there are circumstances relating to the child which require a visit, within 14 days of receipt of those representations;\n(c) when they are informed that the welfare of a child may not be being safeguarded or promoted, within 7 days of being so informed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1506/regulation/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:05.095134+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."
}