CAP. 141 Children [Rev. 2012] “child abuse” includes physical, sexual, psychological and mental injury; “child of tender years” means a child under the age of ten years; “children’s remand home” means a remand home established under section 50 for the detention of children; “Council” means the National Council for Children’s Services established by section 30; “Director” means the Director of Children’s Services appointed under section 37; “disabled child” means a child suffering from a physical or mental handicap which necessitates special care for the child; “early marriage” means marriage or cohabitation with a child or any arrangement made for such marriage or cohabitation; “education” means the giving of intellectual, moral, spiritual instruction or other training to a child; “female circumcision” means the cutting and removal of part or all of the female genitalia and includes the practices of clitoridectomy, excision, infibulation or other practice involving the removal of part, or of the entire clitoris or labia minora of a female person; “foster care placement” means the placement of a child with a person who is not the child’s parent, relative or guardian and who is willing to undertake the care and maintenance of that child; “foster parent” means a parent registered under this Act to receive and retain a child for the purpose of caring for and maintaining the child apart from the child’s parents, guardian or relative; “foster care placement” means the placement of a child with a person who is not the child’s parent, relative or guardian and who is willing to undertake the care and maintenance of that child; “guardian” in relation to a child includes any person who in the opinion of the court has charge or control of the child; “home” in relation to a child means the place where the child’s parent, guardian, relative or foster parent permanently resides, or if there is no parent, guardian or relative living and the child has no foster parent, the child’s parent’s or guardian’s or relative’s last permanent residence: Provided that— (i) in the case of a parent, guardian or relative having, or having had more than one permanent place of residence, the parent, guardian or relative shall be presumed to be or to have been permanently resident at the place of such person’s principal permanent residence; and (ii) where the court is unable to determine the home of any such child, the child shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have his home in the area of jurisdiction of the local authority in whose area he is found; [Issue 1] C15 - 12