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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/placement-of-children-with-parents-etc-regulations-1991/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/placement-of-children-with-parents-etc-regulations-1991/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/893",
  "legislation_title": "The Placement of Children with Parents etc Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/placement-of-children-with-parents-etc-regulations-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese 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.\nThey 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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/893/note",
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  },
  "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."
}