PART 5 Representations to voluntary organisations and about fostering limits

21 Requirement on voluntary organisations to consider representations
Every voluntary organisation who are providing accommodation for a child are required to consider in accordance with regulation 22 any representations (including any complaint) made to them by—
(a) any child, other than one who is looked after by a local authority, who is being provided with accommodation by them;
(b) any parent of his;
(c) any person who is not a parent of his but who has parental responsibility for him; or
(d) such other person as they consider has a sufficient interest in the child's welfare to warrant his representations being considered by them.

22 Procedure for considering representations made to voluntary organisations
1 Regulations 2, 6 to 12, and 14 to 20 will apply in relation to representations made to voluntary organisations under regulation 21 with the modifications listed in paragraph (2).
2 The modifications are—
(a) for any reference in those regulations to “local authority” there is substituted a reference to “ voluntary organisation ”;
(b) all references in those regulations to advocates are omitted;
(c) in regulation 2—
(i) for the definition of “complainant” there are substituted the words “ a person making representations to a voluntary organisation which stand to be considered by them under a procedure established under section 59 of the Act ”;
(ii) for the definition of “independent person” there are substituted the words—

“in relation to representations made to a voluntary organisation a person who is not—
(a) an officer of that organisation;
(b) engaged in any way in furthering the objects of that organisation; or
(c) the spouse or civil partner of a person mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) or (b)”

; and
(d) in regulations 12 and 14 for the words “section 26(3)(e), (3B)(b) or (3C)(c)” there are substituted the words “ regulation 21(d) ”.

23 Consideration of representations under paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 to the Act
1 Regulations 2, 6 to 11 and 13 to 20 will apply in relation to a local authority's consideration of representations under paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 7 to the Act (which is concerned with limits on the number of children a person may foster) with the modification set out in paragraph (2).
2 The modification is that in regulation 2 for the definition of “complainant” there are substituted the words “ a person making representations to a local authority which stand to be considered by them under a procedure established under paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 to the Act ”.