The Residential Family Centres (Wales) Regulations 2003

Fees

33.—(1) The Registration of Social Care and Independent Healthcare (Fees)(Wales) Regulations 2002(1) are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In the paragraph headed “Arrangement of Regulations”, the following line shall be added at the end — “11. Annual fee — residential family centres.”

(3) In regulation 2(1),

(a) in the definition of “establishment” after the words “children’s home,” there shall be added “residential family centre,”

(b) in the definition of “statement of purpose” there shall be added “(e) in relation to residential family centres, the written statement required to be compiled in relation to the residential family centre in accordance with regulation 4(1) of the Residential Family Centres (Wales) Regulations 2003;”

(4) After regulation 10 (Annual fee — boarding schools and colleges), there shall be inserted the following regulation —

“Annual fee — residential family centres

11.— (1) The annual fee in respect of a residential family centre which shall be paid by the registered provider shall be the sum of the amounts identified in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) —

(a) £400;

(b) £50 multiplied by the relevant number, except that if the product of that multiplication is a negative number the product of the multiplication shall instead be deemed to be zero for the purposes of the summation performed under this paragraph.

(2) The relevant number for the purposes of paragraph (1) in respect of a residential family centre is the number of approved places at the centre, minus the number three.

(3) In the case of a residential family centre providing accommodation for any family on the date on which the Residential Family Centres (Wales) Regulations 2003 come into force the annual fee shall first be payable on 1st March 2004 and, in all other cases, on the date of the establishment of the residential family centre.

(4) Thereafter the annual fee shall be payable every year on the anniversary of the date on which it was first payable.”

(1)

S.I. 2002/921 as amended by the Inspection of Boarding Schools and Colleges (Powers and Fees) (Wales) Regulation 2002 (S.I. 2002/3161).