Regulation 4 Amendment of the Children’s Homes Regulations 1991

The Children’s Homes Regulations 1991^f1 are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

In regulation 5 (staffing of children’s homes), after paragraph (2) insert the following paragraph—

“(3)

Before employing or engaging the services of any person in a children’s home in a position which involves substantial and unsupervised access to children on a sustained or regular basis, the responsible authority shall, so far as practicable, take steps to obtain information about his previous criminal convictions (if any) and any cautions given by a constable in respect of criminal offences.”.