Regulation 7 RegistersI1

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 7(1)(g) inserted by Supported Accommodation 2023 reg. 16(6)(a)
reg. 7(2) words substituted by Supported Accommodation 2023 reg. 16(6)(b)
reg. 7(4) words substituted by Supported Accommodation 2023 reg. 16(6)(c)
reg. 7(5A) inserted by Supported Accommodation 2023 reg. 16(6)(d)
reg. 7(6) words substituted by Supported Accommodation 2023 reg. 16(6)(e)
reg. 7(5) words substituted by Children’s Homes and Looked after Children 2013 reg. 25
reg. 7(5) words substituted by Registration and Inspection of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) 2024 reg. 5(2)
reg. 7(7) inserted by Registration and Inspection of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) 2024 reg. 5(3)

(1)

The CI shall keep a register in respect of the following F1...—

(a)

children’s homes;

(b)

residential family centres;

(c)

fostering agencies;

(d)

voluntary adoption agencies; F2...

(e)

adoption support agencies;

F3(f)

holiday schemes for disabled children.

(2)

Each register shall contain, in relation to each F4establishment, agency or holiday scheme for disabled children in respect of which a person is registered under the Act, the particulars specified in Schedule 5.

(3)

The register may be kept in electronic form, provided that the information so recorded is capable of being reproduced in a legible form.

(4)

When the register in respect of an establishment, agency or holiday scheme for disabled children other than a children’s home is being made available for inspection or a copy of, or extract from, that register is being provided under section 36(1) or (2) of the Act to a person other than a local authority, none of the particulars listed in paragraphs 1, 2 and 10 of Schedule 5 shall be provided.

F5(5)

Subject to paragraph (6), subsections (1) and (2) of section 36 of the Act do not apply to those parts of the register listed in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 10 of Schedule 5 and any inspection report in that register shall not contain the name and address of the children’s home or any other information by which the children’s home could be identified.

F6(6)

Paragraph (5) does not apply in the case of a request to inspect the register, or for any of the information set out in that paragraph, made by:

(a)

the Secretary of State for Education;

(b)

a local authority;

(c)

the chief officer of police for any police area in England for the purposes of safeguarding the welfare of children accommodated in children’s homes within that area; and

(d)

the office of the Children’s Commissioner.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 7(1) omitted (1.7.2013) by virtue of The Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1394), reg. 1(1), Sch. 9 para. 8(a)(i) (with reg. 1(2))
F2: Word in reg. 7(1)(d) omitted (1.7.2013) by virtue of The Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1394), reg. 1(1), Sch. 9 para. 8(a)(ii) (with reg. 1(2))
F3: Reg. 7(1)(f) inserted (1.7.2013) by The Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1394), reg. 1(1), Sch. 9 para. 8(b) (with reg. 1(2))
F4: Words in Regulations substituted (1.7.2013) by The Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1394), reg. 1(1), Sch. 9 para. 1 (with reg. 1(2))
F5: Reg. 7(5) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Care Standards Act 2000 (Registration) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/446), regs. 1, 2(2)
F6: Reg. 7(6) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Care Standards Act 2000 (Registration) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/446), regs. 1, 2(3)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 7 in force at 1.10.2010, see reg. 1(1)