The Providers of Social Work Services (England) Regulations 2013

PART 4 Registers and Certificates of Registration

Registers

17.—(1) HMCI must keep a register of providers of social work services.

(2) The register must contain, in relation to each provider, the particulars specified in Schedule 6.

(3) The register may be kept in electronic form, provided that the information so recorded is capable of being reproduced in a legible form.

(4) When the register is being made available for inspection or a copy of, or extract from, that register is being provided under section 36(1) or (2) of the Act to a person other than a local authority, none of the particulars listed in paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 may be provided.

Contents of certificate

18.  A certificate of registration issued by HMCI(1) must contain the following particulars—

(a) the name, address and telephone number of HMCI;

(b) the name and address of the registered provider;

(c) the name of the responsible individual;

(d) the name of the registered manager;

(e) where the registration is subject to any condition, details of the condition;

(f) the date of registration;

(g) a statement, that if the social work service is not carried on in accordance with the relevant requirements and any conditions, the registration is liable to be cancelled by HMCI;

(h) a statement that the certificate relates only to the person to whom it is issued by HMCI and is not capable of being transferred to another person;

(i) the address of the principal office and any branch of the service.

Return of certificate

19.  If the registration of a person is cancelled, that person must, not later than the day on which the decision or order cancelling the registration takes effect, return the certificate of registration to HMCI by—

(a) delivering it to HMCI; or

(b) sending it to HMCI by registered post or recorded delivery.

(1)

Section 13(4) of the Care Standards Act 2000 requires a certificate of registration to be issued to an applicant by the registration authority on the granting of an application.