{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1506",
  "legislation_title": "Children’s Homes Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Accountability and visiting on behalf of responsible authority",
  "text": "(1) If the person carrying on a voluntary home or registered children’s home, is an individual but is not also the person in charge of the home, he shall visit the home once a month, or cause some other person to do so on his behalf and to report to him in writing on the conduct of the home.\n(2) Where the person carrying on a voluntary home or registered children’s home is a body of persons (whether incorporated or not), the directors, or other persons responsible for the conduct of the body, shall cause one of their number to visit the home once a month and to report to them in writing on the conduct of the home.\n(3) The managers of a controlled or assisted community home shall cause one of their number to visit the home once a month and to report to them in writing on the conduct of the home.\n(4) The local authority who maintain a maintained community home shall cause the home to be visited once a month and to report to them in writing upon the conduct of the home.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/3069",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Homes, Arrangements for Placement, Reviews and Representations) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1506/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:05.095134+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."
}