Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Children’s Home Regulations 1991 (“the principal Regulations”) and make minor amendments to certain other Regulations.Regulation 2(1), (2) and (3) amends the principal Regulations so as to provide that certain regulations of the principal Regulations will not apply to independent schools which are children’s homes within the meaning of section 63 of the Children Act 1989 as amended by section 292 of the Education Act 1993.

Regulation 3(4) exempts from the definitions of “voluntary home” and “children’s home” in the Children Act 1989 so as to remove the requirement to register premises used only for the purpose of providing holiday accommodation, or as approved probation hostels and approved bail hostels, or as hostels run by football clubs for professional footballers or trainee professional footballers who are under the age of 18, or as colleges of further education.Other minor amendments are made to the principal Regulations (regulation 3(5) to (12)).

Regulations 3, 4 and 5 make minor amendments to the Arrangements for Placement of Children (General) Regulations 1991, the Review of Children’s Cases Regulations 1991 and the Representations Procedure (Children) Regulations 1991 respectively so as to disapply these Regulations in the case of placements, otherwise than by a local authority or voluntary organisation, in those independent schools that are children’s homes and in special schools (which are not maintained out of public funds).