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1 This consultation paper uses the term "kinship care" to refer to where the main full-time care arrangement is provided by a member of the child's extended family or wider network of friends and where the child is looked after or would otherwise be looked after, if a kinship carer were not able to provide the care arrangement.
2 For a list of all the proposed changes to the regulations, please see Annex A.
3 "close relative" is defined in the Foster Children (Private Fostering) (Scotland) Regulations 1985 as a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt by full or half blood or by affinity.
4 The APRG report Better Choices for our Children is available at www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/06/27140607/06107.
5 For a list of all the proposed changes to the Regulations, please see Annex A of the consultation document.
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