The Childcare (Childminder Agencies) (Registration, Inspection and Supply and Disclosure of Information) and Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Children’s Homes etc.) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

Amendment of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Children’s Homes etc.) Regulations 2015

3.—(1) Regulation 27 of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Children’s Homes etc.) Regulations 2015(1) is amended as follows.

(2) After paragraph (1) (frequency of inspections) insert—

“(1A) For the year ending 31st March 2022, the Chief Inspector must comply with paragraph (1) as far as reasonably practicable.”.

(3) For paragraph (3A)(a) and (b) and the closing words substitute—

“(a) which records a judgement that the overall experiences and progress of children and young people living in a children’s home are good or outstanding, no further inspection will be required in that year unless the Chief Inspector determines that a further inspection is required;

(b) which records a judgement that the overall experiences and progress of the children and young people are less than good, and that inspection was carried out on or after the 1st January, if the Chief Inspector has been unable to arrange for the second inspection to be carried out in that year the Chief Inspector may carry out the next inspection in the first three months of the following year.”.

(1)

S.I. 2015/551. Amended by S.I. 2017/245 and 2018/246, Regulation 27 was omitted by S.I. 2020/445, regulation 12. The amendment made by regulation 12 ceases to have effect at the end of 30th September 2021.