Regulation 35 Circumstances necessitating visits by authorities
Every authority shall arrange for one of its officers to visit every child who is accommodated within its area in a voluntary home or in a registered children’s home in any of the following circumstances and within the periods specified—
where the authority is informed that a child not in the care of, nor being looked after by, any authority has been placed in such accommodation, within 7 days of being so informed;
where the voluntary organisation or the person carrying on a registered children’s home providing such accommodation makes representations to the authority that there are circumstances relating to the child which require a visit, within 14 days of receipt of those representations; or
when the authority is informed that the welfare of a child may not be being safeguarded or promoted, within 24 hours of being so informed.