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The Protection of Children (Child Care Organisations) Regulations 2000

S.I. 2000/2432 · Made 11 September 2000

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 11th September 2000

Laid before Parliament 11th September 2000

Coming into force 2nd October 2000

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 12(1) of the Protection of Children Act 1999f1, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1999 c. 14.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Prescribed enactments for the purposes of section 12(1) of the Protection of Children Act 1999
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Protection of Children (Child Care Organisations) Regulations 2000, and come into force on 2nd October 2000.

2Prescribed enactments for the purposes of section 12(1) of the Protection of Children Act 1999

The following enactments are prescribed for the purposes of the definition of “child care organisation” in section 12(1) of the Protection of Children Act 1999:—

(a)

Local Authority Social Services Act 1970f1, sections 2 and 7A to 7D;

(b)

Adoption Act 1976f2, section 9;

(c)

National Health Service Act 1977f3, sections 8 and 15 to 18A, Schedule 5 and Schedule 5A;

(d)

Registered Homes Act 1984f4 sections 16 and 26;

(e)

Children Act 1989f5, sections 72 and 73, paragraph 4 of Schedule 4, paragraph 7 of Schedule 5 and paragraph 10 of Schedule 6;

(f)

National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990f6, section 5 and Schedule 2;

(g)

Criminal Justice Act 1991f7, sections 84 to 88A;

(h)

Probation Service Act 1993f8, section 25; and

(i)

Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994f9, sections 7 to 15.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Yvette Cooper

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health,

Department of Health

11th September 2000

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe enactments for the purposes of section 12(1) of the Protection of Children Act 1999, which requires the Secretary of State to keep a list of persons considered unsuitable to work with children. The Act requires child care organisations to refer individuals to him for inclusion on that list, in certain circumstances, and prohibits them from offering employment in a child care position to any individual who is included in the list. An organisation is a “child care organisation” subject to those provisions only if its activities are regulated by or by virtue of an enactment prescribed by the Secretary of State. Regulation 2 prescribes enactments for those purposes.