Sch 2 para 12
Regulations under section 23(2)(a) may, in particular, make provision— (a) with regard to the welfare of children placed with local authority foster parents; (b) as to the arrangements to be made by local authorities in connection with the health and education of such children; (c) as to the records to be kept by local authorities; (d) for securing that a child is not placed with a local authority foster parent unless that person is for the time being approved as a local authority foster parent by such local authority as may be prescribed; (e) for securing that where possible the local authority foster parent with whom a child is to be placed is— (i) of the same religious persuasion as the child; or (ii) gives an undertaking that the child will be brought up in that religious persuasion; (f) for securing that children placed with local authority foster parents, and the premises in which they are accommodated, will be supervised and inspected by a local authority and that the children will be removed from those premises if their welfare appears to require it; (g) as to the circumstances in which local authorities may make arrangements for duties imposed on them by the regulations to be discharged, on their behalf.