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Fostering - constitution and membership of fostering panel Duty
- Description
- The fostering service provider must maintain a list of persons who are considered by them to be suitable to be members of a fostering panel (“the central list”), including one or more social workers who have at least three years’ relevant post-qualifying experience.
Where the fostering service provider are of the opinion that a person included in the central list is unsuitable or unable to remain on the list, the fostering service provider may remove that person’s name from the list by giving them one month’s notice in writing.
Subject to paragraph (5) of these Regulations, the fostering service provider must constitute one or more fostering panels, as necessary, to perform the functions of a fostering panel under these Regulations, and, where a panel is constituted, the fostering service provider must appoint panel members including:
(i)a person to chair the panel who, in the case of any appointment made after 1st October 2011, must be independent of the fostering service provider, and
(ii)one or two persons who may act as chair if the person appointed to chair the panel is absent or that office is vacant (“the vice chairs”) from the persons on the central list.
The fostering service provider must ensure that the individual members have between them the experience and expertise necessary, to effectively discharge the functions of the panel.
- Modified
- 10 Feb 2022
- Status
- Live
- is found in the following lists
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- requires
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