Section 68Part 9 — PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS FOR FOSTERING CHILDREN
Welfare of privately fostered children
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68. (1) The Department shall satisfy itself that the welfare of children who are or are proposed to be privately fostered within the Islands is being or will be satisfactorily safeguarded and promoted and ensure that such advice is given to those concerned with them as appears to the Department to be needed.
The Governor in Cabinet may make regulations —
requiring every child who is privately fostered within the Islands to be visited by an officer of the Department —
in prescribed circumstances; and
on specified occasions or within specified periods; and
imposing requirements which are to be met by the Department, or officer of the Department in carrying out functions under this section.
Where any person who is authorised by the Department to visit privately fostered children has reasonable cause to believe that —
any privately fostered child is being accommodated in premises in the Islands; or Children Law (2012 Revision) Section 69 c Revised as at 31st day of July, 2012 Page 81
it is proposed to accommodate any such child in any such premises, he may at any reasonable time inspect those premises and any children there.
Any person exercising the power under subsection (3) shall, if so required, produce some duly authenticated document showing his authority to do so.
Where the Department is not satisfied that the welfare of any child who is, or is proposed to be, privately fostered in the Islands is being or will be satisfactorily safeguarded or promoted it shall —
unless it considers that it would not be in the best interests of the child, take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that the care and accommodation of the child is undertaken by —
a parent of the child; responsibility for him; or
any person who is not a parent of the child but who has parental
a relative of the child; and
consider the extent to which (if at all) it should exercise any of its functions under this Law with respect to the child.