{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/176",
  "legislation_title": "The Children’s Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Health needs of children",
  "text": "(1) The registered person shall promote and protect the health of the children accommodated in a children’s home.\n(2) In particular the registered person shall ensure that –\n(a) each child is registered with a general practitioner;\n(b) each child is referred to such medical, dental, nursing, psychological and psychiatric advice, treatment and other services, as he may require;\n(c) each child is provided with such individual support, aids and equipment as he may require as a result of any particular health needs or disability he may have;\n(d) each child is provided with guidance, support and advice on health and personal care issues appropriate to his needs and wishes; and\n(e) any person appointed to the position of nurse at the children’s home is a nurse on the register maintained under Article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, by virtue of qualifications in nursing or midwifery as the case may be.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in operation at 1.4.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/176/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:52:51.907347+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."
}