806 Meaning of providing foster care

806  Meaning of providing foster care

(1)     For the purposes of this Chapter foster care is provided if an individual—

(a)     provides accommodation and maintenance for a child, and

(b)     does so as a foster carer.

[(2)     An individual is a foster carer if the child is placed with the individual by virtue of a compulsory supervision order or interim compulsory supervision order, or under any of the following enactments, unless the individual is excluded by subsection (5).]

(3)     The enactments are—

(a)     section [22C] or 59(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989 (c 41) (provision of accommodation for children by local authorities or voluntary organisations),

[(aa)     section 81 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (provision of accommodation for children by local authorities),]

(b)     regulations under section 5 of the

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