The Residential Family Centres Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Facilities and services

16.—(1) Subject to regulation 3(3), the registered person shall provide facilities and services to residents in accordance with the statement of purpose.

(2) The registered person shall having regard to the size of the residential family centre and the number and needs of residents—

(a) provide telephone facilities which are suitable for the needs of residents, and make arrangements to enable residents to use such facilities in private;

(b) provide in rooms occupied by residents adequate furniture, bedding and other furnishings, including curtains and floor coverings, and equipment suitable to the needs of residents and screens where necessary;

(c) permit residents, so far as it is practicable to do so, and subject to fire and safety requirements, to bring their own furniture and furnishings into the rooms they occupy;

(d) provide adequate laundry facilities for residents to wash, dry and iron clothes and linen for their families;

(e) so far as it is reasonable and practicable to do so, provide adequate facilities for residents to prepare their own food and ensure that such facilities are safe for use by residents;

(f) so far as it is reasonable and practicable to do so, provide sufficient and suitable kitchen equipment, crockery, cutlery and utensils and adequate facilities for the preparation and storage of food;

(g) after consultation with the environmental health department of the district council for the district in which the centre is situated, make suitable arrangements for maintaining satisfactory standards of hygiene in the centre;

(h) provide a place where the money and valuables of residents may be deposited for safe keeping, and make arrangements for residents to acknowledge in writing the deposit and return to them of any money or valuables.