Article 5 Specified social care schemes for kinship careI1

United Kingdom

(1)

A specified social care scheme in relation to kinship care must meet Conditions A to F.

(2)

Condition A is that X has not yet attained 18 years of age.

(3)

Condition B is that X is a looked after child.

(4)

Condition C is that Y receives payment from L for providing kinship care to X.

(5)

Condition D is that Y is—

(a)

related to X either by blood, marriage or civil partnership, but is not a parent or step-parent of X, or

(b)

known to X and with whom X has a pre-existing relationship.

(6)

Condition E is that Y is regarded by L as a suitable person to care for X.

(7)

Condition F is that, in relation to X, Y is not a person in respect of whom a court has made—

(a)

a residence order, F1...

F2(aa)

(in relation to orders made in England and Wales) a child arrangements order that names Y as a person with whom X is to live, or

(b)

a special guardianship order.

Annotations

F1: Word in art. 5(7)(a) omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of The Child Arrangements Order (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/852), arts. 1, 21(a)
F2: Art. 5(7)(aa) inserted (22.4.2014) by The Child Arrangements Order (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/852), arts. 1, 21(b)