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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/visits-to-children-in-long-term-residential-care-regulations-2011/note",
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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",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations are made under section 86A of the Children Act 1989, which imposes a duty on local authorities to make arrangements for children in long-term residential care to be visited by a representative of the authority. Section 86A of that Act is a new provision which was inserted by section 18 of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008.\nRegulation 3 prescribes the frequency with which a representative of the authority must visit the accommodated child.\nRegulation 4 requires the representative of the authority to speak to the accommodated child in private during each visit, unless it would be inappropriate to do so.\nRegulation 5 requires the representative to prepare a report of each visit. It also sets out the contents of the report and the persons to whom the local authority must give a copy.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1010/note",
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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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