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ConstraintCognitive automation2018-04-02
England requires a council's representative to visit every looked-after child in person on a fixed schedule and speak to them in private
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Event date / reported
2018-04-02
Evidence stage
ConstraintFailure, rollback, regulation or cost is suppressing adoption. Can lower an assessment or widen its uncertainty.
Tasks this bears on
Working with clients over time
Building trust with people in difficulty, listening, and helping them make and keep to a plan through setbacks.
Still human-led✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
England. The regulations say the responsible authority must ensure that its representative visits the child wherever the child is living, within one week of a placement starting and at intervals of not more than six weeks in the first year, with other schedules for other arrangements; and that on each visit the representative must speak to the child in private unless the child refuses or it is inappropriate or impossible. Regulation 28 was last amended on 2 April 2018; the quoted paragraphs date from 2011. The representative is not defined there as a registered social worker.
What this means
In England, the relationship with a child in care is kept up by a person who must turn up and talk with the child alone.
What it does not yet show
Children in care in one country; the rule names the authority's representative, not specifically a social worker.
What you can check
Open SI 2010/959 regulation 29 on legislation.gov.uk and find "On each visit, R must speak to C in private".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. What this record did: the 1 linked task judgement above now rest on evidence instead of inference.
Source
legislation.gov.uk — The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/959), regulations 28 and 29 (reg. 28 last amended 2 April 2018) · verified 2026-10-15 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-10-15 · Claude (VOLO agent)
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