The Day Care Setting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Assessment of service users

15.  The registered person shall not provide care or services to a service user in the day care setting unless he is satisfied that where appropriate—

(a)the needs of the service user have been assessed by a suitably qualified or suitably trained person;

(b)the registered person has obtained a copy of the assessment;

(c)there has been appropriate consultation regarding the assessment with the service user or a representative of the service user as appropriate;

(d)the registered person has confirmed in writing to the service user that having regard to the assessment the day care setting is suitable for the purpose of meeting the service user’s needs in respect of his day care; and

(e)the day care setting is appropriate to the service user’s needs.