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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-2001/schedule-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3967",
  "legislation_title": "The Children’s Homes Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-2001",
  "path": "schedule/5",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "EVENTS AND NOTIFICATIONS",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nEvent:\nTo be notified to:\nCommission\nPlacing authority\nSecretary of State\nLocal authority\nPolice\nHealth authority\nDeath of a child accommodated in the home\nyes\nyes\nyes\nyes\nyes\nReferral to the Secretary of State pursuant to section 2(1)(a) of the Protection of Children Act 1999 of an individual working at the home\nyes\nyes\nSerious illness or serious accident sustained by a child accommodated in the home\nyes\nyes\nOutbreak of any infectious disease which in the opinion of a registered medical practitioner attending children at the home is sufficiently serious to be so notified\nyes\nyes\nyes\nAllegation that a child accommodated at the home has committed a serious offence\nyes\nyes\nInvolvement or suspected involvement of a child accommodated at the home in prostitution\nyes\nyes\nyes\nyes\nSerious incident necessitating calling the police to the home\nyes\nyes\nAbsconding by a child accommodated at the home\nyes\nAny serious complaint about the home or persons working there\nyes\nyes\nInstigation and outcome of any child protection enquiry involving a child accommodated at the home\nyes\nyes",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 14."
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "word inserted",
      "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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    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Care Homes Regulations 2001"
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    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Children’s Homes and Looked after Children (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/3239",
      "affecting_title": "The Children’s Homes and Looked after Children (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2469",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3967/schedule/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:19:04.268533+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."
}