{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-family-centres-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-family-centres-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/236",
  "legislation_title": "The Residential Family Centres Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-family-centres-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "schedule/5",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "EVENTS AND NOTIFICATIONS",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nEvent:\nTo be notified to:\nRQIA\nPlacing authority\nDepartment of Health, Social Service and Public Safety\nHSS trust in whose area the centre is located\nPolice\nDirector of Public Health of the HSS Board\nDeath of a resident accommodated in the centre\nYes\nYes\nYes\nYes\nYes\nReferral to the Department pursuant to Article 4(1)(a) of the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 of an individual working at the centre\nYes\nYes\nYes\nYes\nSerious illness or serious accident sustained by a child accommodated in the centre\nYes\nYes\nOutbreak of any infectious disease which in the opinion of a registered medical practitioner attending residents at the centre is sufficiently serious to be so notified\nYes\nYes\nYes\nAllegation that a resident accommodated at the centre has committed a serious offence\nYes\nYes\nYes\nYes (following consultation with the placing authority)\nInvolvement or suspected involvement in prostitution of (i) a child; or (ii) a parent who is under the age of 18 accommodated in the centre\nYes\nYes\nYes\nYes (following consultation with the placing authority)\nSerious incident necessitating calling the police to the centre\nYes\nYes\nYes\nAbsconding by a resident accommodated at the centre\nYes\nYes\nAny serious complaint about the centre or persons working there\nYes\nYes\nYes\nInstigation and outcome of any child protection enquiry involving (i) a child; or (ii) a parent who is under the age of 18 accommodated in the centre\nYes\nYes\nYes (following consultation with the placing authority)\nAny serious adverse event as defined in accordance with Departmental guidance\nYes",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations 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": "Sch. 5 in operation at 30.4.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 32 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1) provides that the Chief Administrative Medical Officer of a Health and Social Services Board shall be known as the Director of Public Health"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 (N.I. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/236/schedule/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:40:58.073691+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."
}