{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-england-regulations-2011/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-england-regulations-2011/regulation-42.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/581",
  "legislation_title": "The Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-england-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Application of these Regulations with modifications to short breaks",
  "text": "(1) In the circumstances set out in paragraph (2), these Regulations apply in relation to a child with the modifications set out in paragraph (3).\n(2) The circumstances are that the child—\n(a) is not in the care of a local authority, and\n(b) is placed in a series of short-term placements with the same foster parent (“short breaks”), where—\n(i) no single placement is intended to last for more than 17 days,\n(ii) at the end of each such placement the child returns to the care of the child's parent or a person who is not his parent but who has parental responsibility for the child,\n(iii) the short breaks do not exceed 75 days in total in any period of 12 months.\n(3) The modifications are that regulations 14, 15(2)(a) and (d), and 16 do not apply in relation to the child.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/581/regulation/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:14:42.917939+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."
}