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Care placement - placement before assessment complete Duty
- Description
- Where the nominated officer considers it to be necessary and consistent with C’s welfare, the responsible authority may place C with P before their assessment under regulation 17 (“the assessment”) is completed provided that they:
(a)arrange for P to be interviewed in order to obtain as much of the information specified in Schedule 3 about P and the other persons living in P’s household who are aged 18 and over as can be readily ascertained at that interview,
(b)ensure that the assessment and the review of C’s case are completed in accordance with regulation 17 as soon as is reasonably practicable after C being placed with P, and
(c)ensure that a decision in accordance with regulation 18 is made and approved within ten working days after the assessment is completed, and if the decision is to confirm the placement, review the placement plan and, if appropriate amend it, and if the decision is not to confirm the placement, terminate the placement.
- Modified
- 10 Feb 2022
- Status
- Live
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