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These Regulations may be cited as the Looked After Children (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 and come into force on 28th September 2009.
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(1) The Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 33(1)(b) (fostering and kinship care allowances) for “1993” substitute “1995”.
(3) In regulations 45(1) (review of the child’s case: child placed with kinship carer, foster carer or in a residential establishment) and 46(1) (local authority visits: child in placement) omit “by a local authority”.
(4) In regulation 48(2) (arrangements with registered fostering services)—
(a) omit “II, III,” and “XI and XII”;
(b) after “VI,” insert “VII,”; and
(c) after “VIII” for “,” substitute “and”.
(5) In Schedule 3 (information as to prospective foster carer or kinship carer and other members of the household and family)—
(a) in paragraph 1—
(i) after “marital” insert “or civil partnership”; and
(ii) after “marriage” insert “and civil partnership”;
(b) in paragraph 2 after “foster” insert “or kinship”;
(c) in paragraph 9 for “relative” substitute “kinship”;
(d) in paragraph 11 for “foster” where it second occurs substitute “become a foster or kinship carer”; and
(e) in paragraphs 13 and 14 after “foster” where it second occurs in each paragraph insert “or kinship”.
(6) In paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 (matters and obligations to be covered in foster and kinship placement agreements) at the end insert “or 6”.
ADAM INGRAM
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
13th August 2009