The Residential Family Centres (Wales) Regulations 2003

Statement of Purpose

4.—(1) The registered person must compile in relation to the residential family centre a written statement (in these Regulations referred to as “the statement of purpose”) which must consist of a statement as to the matters listed in Schedule 1.

(2) The registered person must provide a copy of the statement of purpose to the appropriate office of the National Assembly and must make a copy of it available, upon request, for inspection by —

(a) any person who works at the residential family centre;

(b) any resident;

(c) any local authority exercising any functions under the 1989 Act relating to the residential family centre.

(3) The registered person must produce a written guide to the residential family centre (the “resident’s guide”) which includes a summary of the statement of purpose, and must supply a copy of it to the appropriate office of the National Assembly and to each parent accommodated in the residential family centre.

(4) The registered person must —

(a) keep under review and where appropriate revise the statement of purpose and resident’s guide; and

(b) notify the appropriate office of the National Assembly within 28 days of any such revision.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6) the registered person must ensure that the residential family centre is at all times conducted in a manner which is consistent with its statement of purpose.

(6) Nothing in paragraph (5) or in regulations 14(1) or 21(1) shall require or authorise the registered person to contravene or not comply with —

(a) any other provision of these Regulations; or

(b) the conditions for the time being in force in relation to the registration of the registered person under Part II of the 2000 Act.