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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visits-to-children-in-long-term-residential-care-regulations-2011/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1010",
  "legislation_title": "The Visits to Children in Long-Term Residential Care Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visits-to-children-in-long-term-residential-care-regulations-2011",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Children And Young Persons, England And Wales\nMade 29th March 2011\nLaid before Parliament 31st March 2011\nLaid before the National Assembly of Wales 31st March 2011\nComing into force 25th April 2011\nThe Secretary of State for Education and the Welsh Ministers, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred by section 86A(4) of the Children Act 1989, make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 86A was inserted by section 18 of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (c. 23) (“the 2008 Act”). Section 86A(5) provides that regulations under section 86A are to be made by the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers acting jointly."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1010/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:10:09.684074+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}