# Children’s Homes Regulations 1991, Regulation 32: Circumstances necessitating visits by Local Authorities


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—
(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;
(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;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1506/regulation/32 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991/regulation-32
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