Regulation 14 Short-term placements in kinship care

(1)

Where paragraph (2) applies a series of planned short-term placements with a kinship carer made in accordance with regulation 11 may be treated as a single placement with a kinship carer for the purposes of these Regulations.

(2)

This paragraph applies where–

(a)

all the placements occur within a period which does not exceed 12 months;

(b)

no single placement is for a duration of more than 4 weeks; and

(c)

the total duration of the placements does not exceed 120 days.