Conditions for foster-care placements

(1) Where a care order has been made the social services practitioner may place the child with a person who is willing to undertake the care and maintenance of the child (in this Part referred to as a “foster parent’). (2) An application to foster a child shall be made to the social services practitioner, except that a relative of a child without a parent or guardian may foster the child without first applying to the social services practitioner and the provisions of this Part shall not apply to him or her. (3) Foster-care placements shall be made in accordance with the rules set out in the Second Schedule to this Act. 69 (4) The Minister may add, vary, amend or repeal and replace the rules set out in the Second Schedule to this Act.