The Children Act, 1948, and the Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act, 1948 / edited by A.C.L. Morrison [and others].

  • Great Britain
Date:
1948
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Credit: The Children Act, 1948, and the Nurseries and Child-Minders Regulation Act, 1948 / edited by A.C.L. Morrison [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX C BOARDING OUT RULES CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (BOARDING OUT) RULES, 1046 [S.R. & O. 1946 No. 2083 ] NOTE.—For the continuance of these rules, notwithstanding the modification of s. 84 (2) of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, by the Children Act, 1948, s. 60 and Sched. ITI, see that Act, Sched. II, para. 4 (1). In pursuance of the power conferred upon me by subsection (2) of section 84 of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, I hereby make the following Rules :— 1. These Rules may be cited as the Children and Young Persons (Boarding Out) Rules, 1946. 2. These Rules shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1947. 3.—(1) In these Rules the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say :— “ boarding out ”’ means the placing of a foster child with a foster parent ; “foster child ’’ means a child or young person committed to the care of a local authority as a fit person under the provisions of the Act ; “foster parent ’’ means a husband and wife, or a woman, with whom a foster child is boarded out ; “local authority ’’ means, except where the context otherwise requires, the local authority to whose care as a fit person a foster child has been committed in accordance with the Act ; “the Act’? means the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 ; “visitor ’’ means an officer, or a member of a committee of the local authority, who is appointed by the'local authority for the purpose of assisting the authority in the performance of their functions under these Rules and, in particular, of exercising supervision Over foster children and arranging for boarding them out. (2) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of these Rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament. 4. The local authority shall, except as hereinafter provided, make arrange- ments for every person committed to their care to be boarded out as soon as possible with a suitable foster parent and, where within three months of the committal of any person to their care he has not been boarded out, the authority shall report forthwith to the Secretary of State the reasons therefor and apply for his consent to the alternative arrangements made. 5. A foster child shall not be boarded out, or be allowed to remain boarded out. (a) with a person who has at any time been convicted of an offence which renders him unfit to be a foster parent, or (Db) in any environment which is likely to be detrimental to the child. 6. A foster child shall not be boarded out, or be allowed to remain boarded out, in a home where more than four other children or young persons are
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