Explanatory note

These Regulations provide for the accommodation of children in thecare of a local authority with a parent, person who is not a parent buthas parental responsibility and a person in whose favour there was aresidence order immediately before the care order was made.

They make provision for the children to whom the regulations apply(regulation 2); the enquiries and assessment to be made by localauthorities before making decisions to place children in suchaccommodation (regulation 3); the duties of local authorities inrelation to placements in those circumstances (regulation 4); the takingof such decisions by the director of social services or a personnominated by him (regulation 5); immediate placements (regulation 6);the provision of and particulars to be included in agreements betweenlocal authorities and those who are to accommodate the children(regulation 7); notification of placements (regulation 8); support andsupervision of placements by local authorities (regulation 9); theapplication of the regulations to placements which may be made outsideEngland and Wales (regulation 10); the circumstances in which there maybe termination of placements (regulation 11); notification oftermination of placements (regulation 12); and the application of theseRegulations to short-term placements (regulation 13).