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Foster Children (Removal)

Volume 484: debated on Thursday 22 February 1951

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider making provision to secure that when a local authority remove or propose to remove a foster child from his foster home, the local authority shall grant a hearing to the foster parent concerned.

The granting of such a hearing is a matter within the discretion of the local authority whose primary duty it is to act in the interests of the child concerned.