Schedule 7 Events and notifications
England and Wales
Column 1 Event | Column 2 To be notified to: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chief Inspector | Responsible authority | Secretary of State | Area authority | Police | ||
| Death of a child placed with foster parents | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Information is provided to the F4Disclosure and Barring Service under any of sections 35, 36, 39, 41 or 45 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 M1 in respect of an individual working for a fostering service | yes | yes | ||||
| Serious illness or serious accident of a child placed with foster parents | yes | yes | ||||
| Outbreak at the home of a foster parent of any infectious disease which in the opinion of a general practitioner attending the home is sufficiently serious to be so notified | yes | yes | F5yes | F6. . . | ||
| Allegation that a child placed with foster parents has committed a serious offence | yes | yes | ||||
| Involvement or suspected involvement of a child placed with foster parents in F7sexual exploitation | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Serious incident relating to a child placed with foster parents necessitating calling the police to the foster parent's home | yes | yes | ||||
| A child placed with foster parents is missing from the placement | yes | F8yes | yes | |||
| Any serious complaint about any foster parent approved by the fostering agency | yes | yes | ||||
| Instigation and outcome of any child protection enquiry involving a child placed with foster parents | yes | yes | yes | |||
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Sch.7 substituted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 1(1)(3) (with Sch. para. 1(2))
- F2
Words in Sch. 7 table substituted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 160(3)(b)(i)
- F3
Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1
- F4
Words in Sch. 7 substituted (1.12.2012) by The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/3006), arts. 1(1), 33 (with Pt. 4)
- F5
Word in Sch. 7 table inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 160(3)(a)
- F6
Word in Sch. 7 table omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 160(3)(b)(ii)
- F7
Words in Sch. 7 substituted (27.1.2014) by The Childrens Homes and Looked after Children (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3239), regs. 1(1), 29(a)
- F8
Word in Sch. 7 inserted (27.1.2014) by The Childrens Homes and Looked after Children (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3239), regs. 1(1), 29(b)
Marginal citations
- M1
Sections 35, 36, 39, 41 and 45 were amended by section 81(2) and (3)(m)(i) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009. Section 41 was also amended by paragraph 9(1) and (2) of Schedule 5 to S.I. 2009/1182, and by paragraph 15 of Schedule 4 to S.I. 2010/231. Section 45 was also amended by paragraph 91 of Schedule 5, and Part 1 of Schedule 15, to the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c.14), article 6 of S.I. 2009/1797, article 30(b) of S.I. 2009/2610 and by article 2 of S.I. 2010/1073.