CAP. 141
Children
[Rev. 2012]
(4) The Director and a voluntary children’s institution shall provide adequate
facilities for a foster child who is placed for fostering to receive medical and dental
attention as required.
(5) The Director shall require a foster parent to report all cases of serious illness
or accident to a foster child and to summon a medical practitioner immediately in
all such cases.
9. Power of inspection
(1) An authorised officer may at any time enter any foster home or any premises
in which he has reason to believe a child is being maintained contrary to the
provisions of these Rules, and may inspect every part of the foster home or
premises and examine the child and condition of the child therein.
(2) The authorised officer may, if upon inspection under paragraph (1), he is
dissatisfied with the quality of care that a child is receiving remove the child from
the foster home or other premises and place the child in a place of safety until the
wishes of the parent or guardian are known, or until alternative arrangements for
the care and maintenance of the child can be made.
(3) The period during which a child remains in a place of safety under this
section shall not exceed three months.
10. Notification where child leaves
Where a child leaves the care of any person who has possession of him under
these Rules, the person shall, within three days, report to the Director, parent or
guardian of the child.
11. Death
(1) Where a child placed in foster care under this Act dies, the foster parent shall
within twenty-four hours of such death, notify the Director in the prescribed form.
(2) Where the child’s parents or guardians are known, the Director shall inform
them of the child’s death.
(3) If the foster parent dies, in the case where a child is placed with a single
foster parent, the child shall be returned to the home or the children rehabilitation
centre or voluntary children institution from which he was received.
12. Records
Every District Children’s Office shall maintain a register of foster parents, in
which shall be set out in respect of each fostering, a record set out in Forms 2 and
5 specified in the Schedule to these Rules.
13. Every District Children’s Office shall report within one month after each
fostering effected by it, the fact of the fostering and specifying the information in
Form 5 specified in the Schedule to these Rules.
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