The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010 and come into force on 1st April 2011.(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.(1) In these Regulations—
  • the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989;
  • F43“the 2012 Act” means the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012;
  • appropriate person” means—
    • (a) P, where C is to live, or lives, with P;
    • (b) F, where C is to be placed, or is placed, with F;
    • (c) where C is to be placed, or is placed, in a children's home, the person who is registered under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000 F80or, who is registered as the service provider under Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016, in respect of that home; or
    • (d) where C is to be placed, or is placed, in accordance with other arrangements under section 22C(6) (d) , the person who will be responsible for C at the accommodation;
  • area authority” means the local authority for the area in which C is placed, or is to be placed, where this is different from the responsible authority;
  • C” means a child who is looked after by the responsible authority ;
  • care plan” means the plan for the future care of C prepared in accordance with Part 2;
  • case record” has the meaning given in regulation 49;
  • F86connected person” has the meaning given in regulation 24;
  • F43“detention placement plan” has the meaning given in regulation 47C;
  • “director” means the person in charge of a secure training centre;
  • director of children's services” means the officer of the responsible authority appointed for the purposes of section 18 of the Children Act 2004 ;
  • F” means a person who is approved as a local authority foster parent and with whom it is proposed to place C or, as the case may be, with whom C is placed;
  • fostering service provider” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of F28the Fostering Services Regulations;
  • F27the Fostering Services Regulations” means the Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011;
  • full assessment process” has the meaning given in regulation 24(2) (c) ;
  • F43“governor” means the person in charge of a young offender institution;
  • health plan” has the meaning given in regulation 5(b) (i) ;
  • independent visitor” means the independent person appointed to be C's visitor under section 23ZB;
  • IRO” means the independent reviewing officer appointed for C's case under section 25A(1) ;
  • F70“long term foster placement” means an arrangement made by the responsible authority for C to be placed with F where—
    • (a) C’s plan for permanence is foster care,
    • (b) F has agreed to act as C’s foster parent until C ceases to be looked after, and
    • (c) the responsible authority has confirmed the nature of the arrangement to F, P and C,
    and any reference to the responsible authority placing C in such a placement includes, where C is already placed with F, leaving C with F in a long term foster placement;
  • nominated officer” means a senior officer of the responsible authority nominated in writing by the director of children's services for the purposes of these Regulations;
  • P” means—
    • (a) a person who is C's parent;
    • (b) a person who is not C's parent but who has parental responsibility for C; or
    • (c) F58where C is in the care of the responsible authority and there was a child arrangements order which regulated C’s living arrangements in force immediately before the care order was made, a person named in the child arrangements order as a person with whom C was to live;
  • pathway plan” has the meaning given in section 23E(1) (a) ;
  • personal adviser” means the personal adviser arranged for C under paragraph 19C of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act;
  • personal education plan” has the meaning given in regulation 5(b) (ii) ;
  • placement” means—
    • (i) arrangements made by the responsible authority for C to live with P in accordance with section 22C(2) , where C is in the care of the responsible authority, or
    • (ii) arrangements made by the responsible authority...

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