# Contact with Children Regulations 1991, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations provide for the steps to be taken by a localauthority who have refused to allow contact between a child in care andparents and others specified in section 34(1), which include notifyingthose persons and anyone else whose wishes and feelings they consider tobe relevant (regulation 2).
They provide for the authority to depart from the terms of any orderas to contact, by agreement between the authority and the person aboutwhom the order was made, where the child agrees, if he is of sufficientunderstanding, and where a written notification of details of thedecision is sent to the person specified in regulation 2 (regulation 3).They provide for the authority to notify those persons of details of anydecision to vary or suspend any arrangements made, other than under anorder under section 34, so as to allow any person contact with a childin care (regulation 4).
The Schedule provides for the details of the information which maybe given in each case.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/891/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/contact-with-children-regulations-1991/note
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