The Regulation of Care (Requirements as to Care Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006

Scottish Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 274

The Regulation of Care (Requirements as to Care Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006

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SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2006 No. 274

SOCIAL CARE

The Regulation of Care (Requirements as to Care Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006

	Made	19th May 2006
	Laid before the Scottish Parliament	22nd May 2006
	Coming into force	20th June 2006

Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Regulation of Care (Requirements as to Care Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 20th June 2006.

Amendment of the principal Regulations

—(1) The Regulation of Care (Requirements as to Care Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2002[

" "personal plan" shall be construed in accordance with regulation 5(1);".

    (3) In regulation 1(5) (interpretation)[3], after "nurse agency" insert "or an adult placement service,".

    (4) In regulation 4(4) (welfare of users)[4], for "or a fostering service" substitute ", a fostering service or an adult placement service".

    (5) After regulation 11 (fitness in relation to child minding)[5] insert–

Fitness in relation to adult placement services

11A.

A provider of an adult placement service shall not place any service user in premises in which there is any person living who is unfit to be in the proximity of the service user."

(6) For regulation 15 (quality of independent healthcare) substitute–

" 15. —(1) A provider of an independent health care service shall ensure that they provide a care service which is appropriate to and meets the service user's needs as set out in the personal plan.

(2) Such provider is also required to–

(7) After regulation 19(6) (records)[6] insert–

LEWIS MACDONALD
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
19th May 2006

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Regulation of Care (Requirements as to Care Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2002 ("the principal Regulations").

Regulation 2(2) defines personal plans by reference to regulation 5.

Regulation 2(3) amends regulation 1 of the principal Regulations as respects the definition of a person employed and associated expressions in the case of a care service which is an adult placement service. This will ensure that persons introduced to a service user by adult placement services are covered by references to "employed" and "positions held" in regulations 9 (fitness of employees) and 19(2)(a) to (d) (record of persons employed in the provision of a care service) of the principal Regulations.

Regulation 2(4) and (7) disapplies from adult placement services certain requirements of regulations 4 (welfare of users) and 19 (records) of the principal Regulations.

Regulation 2(5) inserts a new regulation 11A into the principal Regulations. It prevents the provider of an adult placement service from placing a service user in premises if there is any person living in those premises who is unfit to be in the proximity of the service user.

Regulation 2(6) substitutes a new regulation 15 which relates to the quality of treatment and services provided by independent health care services. The new Regulation 15 requires providers of independent health care services to provide a service which is appropriate to and meets the service user's needs reflected in the personal plan. Providers must also maintain a system to manage risk associated with the care and treatment of the user.

Providers are also required to introduce and maintain a system of review, in consultation with service users, of the quality of their services and to report the outcome of such review to the Commission and service users.

Notes:

[1] 2001 asp 8; see section 77(1) for the definition of "regulations".

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