Regulation 9 Short-term placements

(1)

This regulation applies to a series of short-term placements of achild with the same foster parent where the following conditions aresatisfied—

(a)

all the placements occur within a period which does not exceed oneyear;

(b)

no single placement is for a duration of more than four weeks; and

(c)

the total duration of the placements does not exceed 90 days.

(2)

Any series of short-term placements to which the regulation appliesmay be treated as a single placement for the purposes of this Part ofthese Regulations but with the modification that a visit underregulation 6(1)(a)(i) and (ii) and regulation 16(a) to (c) is to bemade—

(a)

during the first in the series of placements; and

(b)

again, if more than six months pass from the beginning of thatfirst placement when the child is in fact placed.