Regulation 9 Storage of medicinal products
Subject to paragraph (3), the responsible authority shall ensure that any medicinal product which is kept in a children’s home shall be stored in a secure place so as to prevent any child accommodated there having access to it otherwise than under the supervision of a member of the staff of the home.
Subject to paragraph (3), the person in charge of a children’s home shall ensure that no medicinal product shall be administered to a child otherwise than by a member of the staff of the children’s home, a registered nurse or registered medical practitioner.
Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply to a medicinal product which—
is stored by the child for whom it is provided in such a way that others are prevented from using it; and
may safely be self-administered by that child.