PART IVCONDUCT OF ADULT PLACEMENT AGENCIES OPERATION OF ADULT PLACEMENT AGENCY

Review of quality of services

23.—(1) The registered person shall establish and maintain a system for evaluating the quality of the services which are provided by the adult placement agency.

(2) At the request of the Regulation and Improvement Authority, the registered person shall supply to it a report, based upon the system referred to in paragraph (1), which describes the extent to which, in the reasonable opinion of the registered person—

(a)good quality services for service users are provided by the adult placement agency;

(b)the views of service users and their representatives are taken into account in deciding—

(i)what services to offer to them; and

(ii)the manner in which such services are to be provided; and

(c)recommendations made or requirements imposed by the Regulation and Improvement Authority in relation to the adult placement agency over the period specified in the request, have been addressed.

(3) The report referred to in paragraph (2) shall be supplied to the Regulation and Improvement Authority within one month of receipt of the request referred to in that paragraph, and in the form and manner required by the Regulation and Improvement Authority.

(4) The report shall also contain details of the measures that the registered person considers it necessary to take in order to improve the quality and delivery of the services which are provided by the adult placement agency.

(5) The system referred to in paragraph (1) shall provide for consultation with service users and their representatives.