{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-england-regulations-2011/schedule-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-england-regulations-2011/schedule-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/581",
  "legislation_title": "The Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-england-regulations-2011",
  "path": "schedule/7",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Events and notifications",
  "text": "Column 1\nEvent\nColumn 2\nTo be notified to:\nChief Inspector\nResponsible authority\nSecretary of State\nArea authority\nPolice\nintegrated care board and NHS England\nDeath of a child placed with foster parents\nyes\nyes\nyes\nyes\nyes\nInformation is provided to the Disclosure and Barring Service under any of sections 35, 36, 39, 41 or 45 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 in respect of an individual working for a fostering service\nyes\nyes\nSerious illness or serious accident of a child placed with foster parents\nyes\nyes\nOutbreak 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\nyes\nyes\nyes\n. . .\nAllegation that a child placed with foster parents has committed a serious offence\nyes\nyes\nInvolvement or suspected involvement of a child placed with foster parents in sexual exploitation\nyes\nyes\nyes\nyes\nSerious incident relating to a child placed with foster parents necessitating calling the police to the foster parent's home\nyes\nyes\nA child placed with foster parents is missing from the placement\nyes\nyes\nyes\nAny serious complaint about any foster parent approved by the fostering agency\nyes\nyes\nInstigation and outcome of any child protection enquiry involving a child placed with foster parents\nyes\nyes\nyes",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "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."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/581/schedule/7",
    "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."
}