{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/467",
  "legislation_title": "The Foster Placement (Children) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Circumstances necessitating visits by authorities",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), every authority shall arrange for one of its officers to visit every child who is accommodated with a foster parent within its area by or on behalf of a voluntary organisation in any of the following circumstances and within the periods specified—\n(a) within 28 days of the placement with the foster parent;\n(b) where the voluntary organisation which made the placement with the foster parent makes representations to the authority that there are circumstances relating to the child which require a visit, within 14 days of the receipt of the representations;\n(c) where the authority is informed that the welfare of the child may not be being safeguarded or promoted, as soon as is reasonably practicable but in any event within 7 days of being informed; or\n(d) where the authority is satisfied, following a visit to a child under this regulation in respect of a placement with a foster parent, that the child’s welfare is being safeguarded and promoted, at intervals of not more than 6 months.\n(2) This regulation shall not apply to children in respect of whom an authority has made arrangements under regulation 8.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted (temp.)",
      "affecting": "nisr/2020/78",
      "affecting_title": "The Children’s Social Care (Coronavirus) (Temporary Modification of Children’s Social Care) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/467/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:12.270445+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."
}