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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/placement-of-children-with-parents-etc-regulations-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "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",
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  "number": "1",
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  "text": "In respect of a person with whom it is proposed the child should beplaced—\n(a) age;\n(b) health;\n(c) personality;\n(d) marital status and particulars of any previous marriage;\n(e) previous experience of looking after and capacity to look afterchildren and capacity to care for the child;\n(f) the result of any application to have a child placed with him or toadopt a child or of any application for registration under section 71(registration as child-minder) of the Act and details of any prohibitionon his acting as a child-minder, providing day care, or caring forfoster children privately or children in a voluntary or registeredchildren’s home;\n(g) details of children in his household, whether living there or not;\n(h) religious persuasion and degree of observance, racial origin andcultural and linguistic background;\n(i) past and present employment and leisure activities and interests;\n(j) details of the living standards and particulars of accommodation ofhis household;\n(k) subject to the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act1974, any criminal conviction.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "wsi/2002/2935",
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    },
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      "affecting": "wsi/2002/2935",
      "affecting_title": "The Children Act 1989 and the Care Standards Act 2000 (Miscellaneous Regulations) (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2002/546",
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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."
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