SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14Further amendments relating to Part 5

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c. 47)

8

In section 6 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (regulated activity providers), after subsection (8) insert—

8A

An authority that is a local authority for the purposes of section 17A of the Children Act 1989 F1, section 57 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 or sections 31 to 33 of the Care Act 2014 (direct payments) does not make arrangements for another to engage in a regulated activity by virtue of anything the authority does under F2any of those sections.

8B

A person (S) who is someone's surrogate within the meaning of section 57 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 does not make arrangements for another to engage in a regulated activity by virtue of anything that S does under subsection (1B)(b) or (1C)(b) of that section.

F38C

A person (S) who is authorised as mentioned in subsection (4)(a) of section 32 of the Care Act 2014 does not make arrangements for another to engage in a regulated activity by virtue of anything that S does under subsection (4)(b) of that section.