The Fostering Services (Wales) Regulations 2003

Registration

50.—(1) The “Registration of Social Care and Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2002”(1) are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In the paragraph headed “SCHEDULES” and in regulations 2(2), 4(2), 4(3), 4(6), 9(b), 9(d), 9(e), 9(h), 10, 12(3)(c), 13, 14, 15(4)(f) and in paragraphs 1(e)(ii), 3(c), 3(d), 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11(a), 12(a), 13, 14 of Schedule 1 and in paragraphs 3(1), 7, 9, 10(1)(a)(i), 10(2)(a), 10(2)(b), 10(2)(c) of Schedule 2 and in paragraphs 3, 6(b), 7, 11 of Schedule 3,

• for “establishment” in each instance where it appears substitute “establishment or agency”;

(3) In regulation 2(1) in the definitions of “registered manager”, “registered person”, “registered provider”, “representative”, “responsible individual”, for “establishment” in each instance where it appears substitute “establishment or agency”;

(4) In regulation 2(1) in the definition of “service user”, for “establishment” substitute “establishment or by an agency”;

(5) In regulation 4(5) and in paragraphs 15, 16(a), 16(d) of Schedule 1, for “establishment” in each instance where it appears substitute “establishment or for the purposes of the agency”;

(6) In regulation 8(1), for “establishment” substitute where it appears “establishment or agency” in the first instance and “establishment or for the purposes of the agency” in the second instance;

(7) In regulation 12(3)(c)(i), for “establishment” substitute “establishment or for the purposes of an agency”;

(8) In regulation 15(4)(b) and in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 and in paragraph 10 of Schedule 3, for “establishment” in each instance where it appears substitute “establishment or by the agency”;

(9) In regulation 15(4)(d), for “establishment is” substitute “establishment or the premises used by the agency are”;

(10) In paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 1, for “establishment” substitute where it appears “establishment or agency” in the first instance and “establishment or by the agency” in the second instance;

(11) In paragraph 2(c) of Schedule 1, for “establishment” substitute where it appears “establishment or agency” in the first and second instances and “establishment or by the agency” in the third instance;

(12) In paragraphs 5 and 13 of Schedule 1, for “section 4(8)(a)” in each instance where it appears substitute “section 4(8)(a) or (9)(a);

(13) In paragraph 11 of Schedule 1, for “establishment” substitute where it appears in the first instance “establishment or for the purposes of an agency”;

(14) In paragraph 16 of Schedule 1, for “establishment” substitute where it appears in the first instance “establishment or for the purposes of the agency”;

(15) In paragraph 2 of Schedule 3, for “establishment” substitute where it appears “establishment or agency” in the first instance and “establishment or by the agency” in the second instance.

(16) In regulation 2(1),

(a) at the appropriate place, insert—

““fostering service” means—

(a)

a fostering agency within the meaning of the Act; or

(b)

a local authority fostering service;”;

““local authority fostering service” means the discharge by a local authority of relevant fostering functions within the meaning of the Act”;

(b) in the definition of “appropriate office”, after subsection (d) insert—

“(e) in relation to a fostering service—

(i) if an office has been specified under regulation 2(2) of the Fostering Services (Wales) Regulations 2003 (2) for the area in which the fostering service, as the case may be, is situated, that office;

(ii) in any other case, any office of the National Assembly.”;

(c) in the definition of “statement of purpose”, after subsection (d) insert—

“(e) in relation to a fostering service, the written statement required to be compiled in relation to the fostering service in accordance with regulation 3(1) of the Fostering Services (Wales) Regulations 2003;”.

(1)

S.I. 2002/919 (W.107).

(2)

S.I. 2003/237 (W.35).