Section 92 Regulations about the placing of children with local authority foster parents and prospective adoptersI1

(1)

Regulations under section 87 may, for example, make provision—

(a)

with regard to the well-being of children placed with local authority foster parents or prospective adopters;

(b)

as to the arrangements to be made by local authorities in connection with the health and education of such children;

(c)

as to the records to be kept by local authorities;

(d)

for securing that where possible the local authority foster parent or prospective adopter with whom a child is to be placed—

(i)

is of the same religious persuasion as the child, or

(ii)

gives an undertaking that the child will be brought up in that religious persuasion;

(e)

for securing that children placed with local authority foster parents or prospective adopters, and the premises in which they are accommodated, will be supervised and inspected by a local authority and that the children will be removed from those premises if their well-being appears to require it.

(2)

In this section “prospective adopter” means a person with whom a child is placed under section 81(11).

Annotations

Commencement

I1: S. 92 in force at 6.4.2016 by S.I. 2016/412, art. 2 (with art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)