{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-1991/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-1991/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/910",
  "legislation_title": "The Foster Placement (Children) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Requirements in respect of visits",
  "text": "Every local authority shall make arrangements to ensure that inrespect of any visit made pursuant to regulation 15 an officer of theirs(but subject to regulation 9(2))—\n(a) sees the child during the course of the visit, unless he considersit unnecessary to do so or the child is not in fact with the fosterparents at the time of the visit;\n(b) if the child is not there, makes arrangements to see the child assoon as reasonably practicable;\n(c) takes steps to discover whether the voluntary organisation whichplaced the child have made suitable arrangements to perform their dutiesunder these Regulations and those under section 61 of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2015",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Short-term Placements)(Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/910/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:46:06.648349+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."
}