{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-regulations-2002/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-regulations-2002/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/57",
  "legislation_title": "The Fostering Services Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Meetings of fostering panel",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), no business shall be conducted by a fostering panel unless at least five of its members, including the person appointed to chair the panel, or the vice chair, at least one of the social workers employed by the fostering service and at least two of the independent members, meet as a panel.\n(2) A fostering panel shall make a written record of its proceedings and the reasons for its recommendations.\n(3) In the case of a joint fostering panel, no business shall be conducted unless at least six of its members, including the person appointed to chair the panel, or the vice chair, and one social worker from each fostering service, meet as a panel.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/57/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:16:55.059924+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."
}