{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3967",
  "legislation_title": "The Children’s Homes Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Care Standards Act 2000;\n“the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989;\n“child protection enquiry” has the meaning given to it by regulation 16(3);\n“children’s guide” means the guide produced in accordance with regulation 4(3);\n“general practitioner” means a registered medical practitioner who—\n(a) provides general medical services under Part II of the National Health Service Act 1977;\n(b) performs personal medical services in connection with a pilot scheme under the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997; or\n(c) provides services which correspond to services provided under Part II of the National Health Service Act 1977, otherwise than in pursuance of that Act;\n“organisation”, other than in regulation 17, means a body corporate or any unincorporated association other than a partnership;\n“placement plan” means the written plan prepared in accordance with regulation 12(1);\n“placing authority” in relation to a child accommodated in a children’s home means—\n(a) in the case of a child who is looked after by a local authority, that local authority;\n(b) in the case of a child who is not looked after by a local authority—\n(i) if he is being provided with accommodation by a voluntary organisation, that voluntary organisation;\n(ii) if he is accommodated in a qualifying school under arrangements made by a local education authority or a local authority, that local education authority or local authority as the case may be;\n(iii) in any other case, the child’s parent;\n“qualifying school” means a school which is a children’s home within the meaning of section 1(6) of the Act;\n“registered dental practitioner” means a person registered in the dentists register under the Dentists Act 1984;\n“registered manager”, in relation to a children’s home, means a person who is registered under Part II of the Act as the manager of that home;\n“registered person”, in relation to a children’s home, means any person who is the registered provider or the registered manager of the home;\n“registered provider”, in relation to a children’s home, means a person who is registered under Part II of the Act as the person carrying on that home;\n“responsible individual” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 6(2)(c); and\n“statement of purpose” means the written statement compiled in accordance with regulation 4(1).\n(2) In these Regulations, a reference—\n(a) to a numbered regulation or Schedule is to the regulation in, or Schedule to, these Regulations bearing that number;\n(b) in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph, is to the paragraph in that regulation or Schedule bearing that number;\n(c) in a paragraph to a lettered or numbered sub-paragraph, is to the sub-paragraph in that paragraph bearing that letter or number.\n(3) In these Regulations, references to employing a person include employing a person whether or not for payment, and whether under a contract of service or a contract for services, and allowing a person to work as a volunteer, and references to an employee or to a person being employed shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1977 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1997 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 59 of the 1989 Act governs the provision of accommodation for children by voluntary organisations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "By section 121(1) of the Care Standards Act, “parent” in relation to a child, includes any person who is not a parent of his but who has parental responsibility for him."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1984 c. 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "See section 121(6) to (8) of the Care Standards Act 2000 for provision about the persons who are taken to carry on and manage a community home which is provided by a voluntary organisation."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting": "uksi/2013/235",
      "affecting_title": "The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013"
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      "type": "words omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013"
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    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2004/664",
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      "type": "substituted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Local and Subordinate Legislation) Order 2010"
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      "affecting_title": "The Children’s Homes and Looked after Children (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2013"
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      "affecting_title": "The General Medical Services Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Wales) (No. 2) Order 2004"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
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