# The Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009, 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/210/regulation/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/looked-after-children-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-14
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