# The Placement of Children with Parents etc Regulations 1991, Regulation 6: Immediate Placements


(1) Subject to paragraph (2), nothing in regulation 3 shall prevent theimmediate placement of a child pursuant to a placement decision incircumstances in which the local authority consider that to be necessaryand in accordance with their duty under section 22(3) of the Act and insuch a case the authority shall take steps to ensure that the provisionsof these Regulations that would otherwise have to be complied withbefore the placement decision is made are complied with as soon aspracticable thereafter.
(2) Before an immediate placement is made pursuant to this regulation alocal authority shall—
(a) arrange for the person with whom the child is to be placed to beinterviewed in order to obtain as much of the information specified inparagraph 1 of Schedule 1 as can be readily ascertained at theinterview, and
(b) arrange to obtain as much of the information specified in paragraph2 of Schedule 1 in relation to other members of the household aged 16and over, in which it is proposed the child will live, as can be readilyascertained at the time of that interview.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/893/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/placement-of-children-with-parents-etc-regulations-1991/regulation-6
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