PART 1REGULATION OF SOCIAL CARE SERVICES

CHAPTER 4GENERAL FUNCTIONS

38Register of service providers

(1)

The Welsh Ministers must maintain a register of service providers.

(2)

An entry in the register in respect of a service provider must show the following information—

(a)

the regulated services that the service provider is registered to provide;

F1(aa)

whether any of those services is a restricted children’s service;

(b)

the places at, from or in relation to which the provider is registered to provide those services;

(c)

the name of the responsible individual registered in respect of each such place;

(d)

the date on which the provider's registration took effect in respect of each such regulated service and place;

F2(da)

in the case of a provider of a restricted children’s service—

(i)

that the provider’s registration in respect of that service is subject to the requirement in section 6A(1), and

(ii)

that the condition in section 7(3)(aa) is imposed on the provider’s registration in respect of that service;

(e)

details of any other conditions imposed on the service provider's registration;

(f)

a summary of any inspection report relating to the service provider which has been published under section 36(3)(a);

(g)

such other information as may be prescribed.

F3(2A)

See also Schedule 1A, in respect of the registration of a provider of a restricted children’s service that is not subject to the requirement in section 6A(1) during the transitional period defined in that Schedule.

(3)

The Welsh Ministers must publish the register and make it available for public inspection free of charge, in such manner, and at such times, as they think appropriate (but see subsection (5)(a)).

(4)

The Welsh Ministers must comply with any reasonable request made by a person for a copy of, or an extract from, the register (but see subsection (5)(b)).

(5)

The Welsh Ministers may—

(a)

omit prescribed information from the published register in prescribed circumstances;

(b)

refuse to comply with a request made under subsection (4) in prescribed circumstances.