{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-homes-regulations-2001/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-homes-regulations-2001/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3965",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Homes Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-homes-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Complaints",
  "text": "(1) The registered person shall establish a procedure (“the complaints procedure”) for considering complaints made to the registered person by a service user or person acting on the service user’s behalf.\n(2) The complaints procedure shall be appropriate to the needs of service users.\n(3) The registered person shall ensure that any complaint made under the complaints procedure is fully investigated.\n(4) The registered person shall, within 28 days after the date on which the complaint is made, or such shorter period as may be reasonable in the circumstances, inform the person who made the complaint of the action (if any) that is to be taken.\n(5) The registered person shall supply a written copy of the complaints procedure to every service user and to any person acting on behalf of a service user if that person so requests.\n(6) Where a written copy of the complaints procedure is to be supplied in accordance with paragraph (5) to a person who is blind or whose vision is impaired, the registered person shall so far as it is practicable to do so supply, in addition to the written copy, a copy of the complaints procedure in a form which is suitable for that person.\n(7) The copy of the complaints procedure to be supplied in accordance with paragraphs (5) and (6) shall include—\n(a) the name, address and telephone number of the Commission; and\n(b) the procedure (if any) that has been notified by the Commission to the registered person for the making of complaints to the Commission relating to the care home.\n(8) The registered person shall supply to the Commission at its request a statement containing a summary of the complaints made during the preceding twelve months and the action that was taken in response.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3965/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:19:07.009064+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}