{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-1991/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-1991/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Short-term placements",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a series of short-term placements of achild with the same foster parent where the following conditions aresatisfied—\n(a) all the placements occur within a period which does not exceed oneyear;\n(b) no single placement is for a duration of more than four weeks; and\n(c) the total duration of the placements does not exceed 90 days.\n(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—\n(a) during the first in the series of placements; and\n(b) again, if more than six months pass from the beginning of thatfirst placement when the child is in fact placed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "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/9",
    "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."
}