Health And Social Services And Social Security Adjudications Act 1983

[F1 Conduct of residential care homes E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 4 Pt. I (paras. 1–23), Pt. II paras. 24–37, 44, Pt. III (paras. 49–56), Sch. 9 paras. 4, 6, 9, 12–14 and 26 repealed (E.W.) by Registered Homes Act 1984 (c. 23, SIF 113:3), s. 57, Sch. 3

19 (1) The Secretary of State may make regulations as to the conduct of residential care homes, and in particular— E+W+S

(a) as to the facilities and services to be provided in such homes;

(b) as to the numbers and qualifications of staff to be employed in such homes;

(c) as to the numbers of suitably qualified and competent staff to be on duty in such homes;

(d) as to the records to be kept and notices to be given in respect of persons received into such homes;

(e) as to the notification of events occurring in such homes;

(f) as to the giving of notice by a person of a description specified in the regulations of periods during which any person of a description so specified proposes to be absent from a home;

(g) as to the information to be supplied in such a notice;

(h) making provision for children under the age of 18 years who are resident in such homes to receive a religious upbringing appropriate to the religious persuasion to which they belong;

(j) as to the form of registers to be kept by registration authorities for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule and the particulars to be contained in them; and

(k) as to the information to be supplied on an application for registration.

(2) Regulations under this paragraph may provide that a contravention of or failure to comply with any specified provision of the regulations shall be an offence against the regulations; and any person guilty of an offence against the regulations shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of an amount not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.]