Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968

Section 19.

SCHEDULE 1 Amendment of [1958 c. 65.] Children Act 1958

1 After section 1 there shall be inserted the following section—

“1A In Scotland, without prejudice to the provisions of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, it shall be the duty of every local authority to secure the welfare of children within then-area who are foster children within the meaning of this Part of this Act and, where the local authority consider such a course to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of this section, they shall cause the children to be visited from time to time by their officers, who shall give such advice as to the care and maintenance of the children as may appear to be necessary”.

2 (1) In section 2(1), for the words " and maintenance " to the word " month " there shall be substituted the words " is undertaken for a period of more than six days beginning with the day on which the child is received into that care ".

(2) In section 2(3), after paragraph (e) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(f) who undertakes his care for a period not exceeding one month beginning with the day the child is received into that care, unless—

(i) the person during the year immediately preceding the date of receiving into care has had the care of one or more foster children for periods which in the aggregate exceed three months, or

(ii) the number of continuous periods which exceed six days beginning on the day of receiving into care, throughout which a particular child or any child was in the care of that person in that period of one year, exceeds three.”

(3) Section 2(6) and (7) shall be omitted.

3 In section 9, after the word " foster-child " there shall be inserted the words " for reward ".