(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend Parts 4 (annual fees) and 5 (frequency of inspections) of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Children’s Homes etc.) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/694) (“the Principal Regulations”). The Principal Regulations apply in relation to England only.
These Regulations amend the annual fees that are paid under the Care Standards Act 2000, the Education and Inspections Act 2006 and the Children Act 1989 to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills in respect of voluntary adoption agencies, adoption support agencies, children’s homes, residential family centres, boarding schools, residential colleges, residential special schools and in respect of local authority fostering and adoption functions.
Regulation 6 amends the Principal Regulations to remove the requirement that the Chief Inspector inspect premises used by local authorities in their performance of relevant functions (that is, their adoption and fostering functions) at least once in every three year period.
Regulation 7 amends the Children Act 2004 (Children’s Services) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1972) so as to update the definition of “children’s services” following amendments to the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c.43).
An Impact Assessment has been prepared for this instrument and it is available from the Department for Education and annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.