The Residential Care Homes (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Residential Care Homes Regulations 1984 principally in their application to small residential care homes (ie homes with fewer than four residents).

They remove or vary certain requirements to supply information on an application to register a small home (regulations 2 and 11), stipulate the registration fee (regulation 3), and annual fee payable in respect of small homes and the increased annual fee payable after a former small home begins to cater for four or more residents but has not applied to bere-registered under section 5(1) of the Registered Homes Act 1984 (regulation 4).

They also remove or vary in relation to small homes certain requirements for the person registered to keep records and make arrangements for visitors (regulations 5, 8 and 12), to consult with the fire authority (regulation 6) and to provide facilities and services (regulation 7).

The Regulations replace regulation 18 of the 1984 Regulations (inspection of homes) with a provision that inspection of homes other than small homes shall be carried out at least twice a year (regulation 9).

They also make provision for exemption from registration in respect of circumstances governed by the Children Act 1989 (regulation 10).

The Regulations also vary the particulars to be recorded in the registers kept by registration authorities in respect of small homes (regulation 13) and impose an obligation on the person registered in respect of a small home to make an annual return containing specified information (regulations 10 and 14).