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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-regulations-2002/schedule-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-regulations-2002/schedule-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/57",
  "legislation_title": "The Fostering Services Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-regulations-2002",
  "path": "schedule/8",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "EVENTS AND NOTIFICATIONS",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nEvent:\nTo be notified to:\nCommission\nResponsible authority\nSecretary of State\nArea authority\nPolice\nHealth Authority\nDeath of a child placed with foster parents\nyes\nyes\nyes\nyes\nyes\nReferral to the Secretary of State pursuant to section 2(1)(a) of the Protection of Children Act 1999 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 registered medical practitioner attending the home is sufficiently serious to be so notified\nyes\nyes\nyes\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 prostitution\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\nAbsconding by a child placed with foster parents\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",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/603",
      "affecting_title": "The Education and Inspections Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2469",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/57/schedule/8",
    "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."
}