{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-protection-from-offenders-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-protection-from-offenders-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2308",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Protection from Offenders) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-protection-from-offenders-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Children’s Homes Regulations 1991",
  "text": "(1) The Children’s Homes Regulations 1991 are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In regulation 5 (staffing of children’s homes), after paragraph (2) insert the following paragraph—\n“(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.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1506, amended by S.I. 1993/3069, S.I. 1994/1511 and S.I. 1996/692."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3967",
      "affecting_title": "The Children’s Homes Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/327",
      "affecting_title": "The Children’s Homes (Wales) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2308/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:51:16.041139+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."
}