# The Supported Accommodation (England) Regulations 2023, Regulation 7: The support standard

Extent: E+W

(1) The support standard is that children receive individual and tailored support that meets their needs.
(2) In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to—
(a) ensure that children are encouraged and enabled to take a lead role in determining the support they receive and to participate in and influence how the supported accommodation operates;
(b) ensure that plans for support are based on initial referral information, are meaningful and are created in full consultation with the child, taking account of relevant plans for the child;
(c) keep the child’s support under review, taking into consideration the plans for support, and relevant plans, to ensure that the child’s needs continue to be met and that the child is kept safe;
(d) co-operate with the child’s accommodating authority in agreeing the child’s placement plan or, as the case may be, pathway plan;
(e) comply with requests by the child’s accommodating authority to provide—
(i) the accommodating authority with information relating to the child;
(ii) a suitable representative to attend any meeting the accommodating authority may hold about the child;
(f) engage and work with the accommodating authority if the registered person has concerns or if the child’s support needs to be changed, including where that change may mean that the child requires more intensive support;
(g) ensure that processes are in place to enable children to access support from other organisations and community services, such that they are encouraged and enabled to access a range of services, including those offered by advocacy organisations and training providers;
(h) in the event that the registered person or a member of staff considers that an accommodating authority or a relevant person is failing to provide the support set out in a child’s relevant plans, make representations, or, as the case may be, enable staff to make representations, to the accommodating authority or relevant person with a view to ensuring that the child’s needs are met;
(i) ensure that staff seek to develop and maintain effective professional relationships with such individuals or organisations that the registered person considers appropriate, having regard to the range of needs of children for whom it is intended the supported accommodation undertaking is to provide support and accommodation;
(j) before a child arrives or upon a child’s arrival, ensure that the child is given a written guide, in an accessible format, containing information about—
(i) the support and accommodation provided by the supported accommodation undertaking;
(ii) what advocacy support or services are available, how the child may access that support or those services, and any entitlement the child may have to independent advocacy;
(iii) how to make a complaint or representation in relation to the support and accommodation provided and how any such complaint or representation will be dealt with;
(iv) what services and facilities are available that take account of children’s needs arising as a result of cultural differences or disability;
and which the registered person must keep under review, seeking children’s comments before revising the written guide;
(k) ensure a plan for support is in place to support the child to develop the resilience and skills required to transition out of supported accommodation when the child is ready to live more independently;
(l) ensure that an adequate level of support is available to the child to assist with the transition out of supported accommodation;
(m) ensure that children are supported to access education, training or employment;
(n) ensure that children are supported to understand and manage the impact of any experience of abuse or neglect.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/416/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/supported-accommodation-england-regulations-2023/regulation-7
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