{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-32.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/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Visits by registered provider",
  "text": "(1) Where the registered provider is an individual, but is not in day to day charge of the children’s home, he shall visit the home in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) Where the registered provider is an organisation or a partnership, the home shall be visited in accordance with this regulation by –\n(a) the responsible individual or one of the partners, as the case may be;\n(b) another of the directors or other persons responsible for the management of the organisation or partnership; or\n(c) an employee of the organisation or partnership who is not directly concerned with the conduct of the home.\n(3) Visits under paragraph (1) or (2) shall take place at least once a month in accordance with guidance issued by the Department and may be unannounced.\n(4) The person carrying out the visit shall –\n(a) interview, with their consent and in private, such of the children accommodated there, their parents, relatives and persons working at the home as appears necessary in order to form an opinion of the standard of care provided in the home;\n(b) inspect the premises of the children’s home, its daily log of events, records of any complaints and a representative sample of records held under Schedules 3 and 4; and\n(c) prepare a written report on the conduct of the home.\n(5) The registered provider shall supply a copy of the report required to be made under paragraph (4)(c) to –\n(a) the RQIA;\n(b) the registered manager of the children’s home;\n(c) the placing authority; and\n(d) in the case of a visit under paragraph (2) –\n(i) where the registered provider is an organisation, to each of the directors or other persons responsible for the management of the organisation; and\n(ii) where the registered provider is a partnership, to each of the partners.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32(3) substituted (temp.) (7.5.2020) by virtue of The Children's Social Care (Coronavirus) (Temporary Modification of Children's Social Care) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/78), regs. 1, 9(2)(a) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 32(4)(a) omitted (temp.) (7.5.2020) by virtue of The Children's Social Care (Coronavirus) (Temporary Modification of Children's Social Care) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/78), regs. 1, 9(2)(b) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 32(4)(b) omitted (temp.) (7.5.2020) by virtue of The Children's Social Care (Coronavirus) (Temporary Modification of Children's Social Care) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/78), regs. 1, 9(2)(b) (with reg. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Regulation substituted (11.4.2014) by Health and Social Care (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 5), Sch. para. 1(1)(a) (with Sch. para. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 32 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/32",
    "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."
}