The Social Work (Residential Establishments-Child Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1091 (S.107)

SOCIAL WORK, SCOTLAND

RESIDENTIAL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS, SCOTLAND

The Social Work (Residential Establishments-Child Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988

Made

19th June 1988

Laid before Parliament

30th June 1988

Coming into force

1st August 1988

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5(2) and 60(1) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968((1)) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Social Work (Residential Establishments-Child Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st August 1988.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Work (Residential Establishments-Child Care) (Scotland) Regulations 1987((2)).

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

3.  In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation) the definitions of “care authority” and “managers” shall be deleted and there shall be substituted, at the appropriate places in alphabetical order, the following entries:—

““care authority” means a local authority or voluntary organisation responsible for the welfare of a child where regulation 17 applies; , and

“managers” means—

(a) in the case of a voluntary organisation, the management committee to whom powers are delegated within the organisation for management of the residential establishment;

(b) in the case of a local authority, those officers exercising powers standing referred to the Social Work Committee under section 2(2) of the Act, or subject to an arrangement under section 161(3) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973((3)), for the management of the residential establishment;”.

Michael B Forsyth

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

19th June 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Work (Residential Establishment-Child Care) (Scotland) Regulations 1987 by deleting the existing definition of “care authority” and substituting an amended version and by deleting the existing definition of “managers” and substituting a new expanded definition.

(1)

1968 c. 49; section 5(2) was substituted by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Schedule 3, paragraph 49; section 60(1) was amended by section 8(3) of the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41)

(2)

S.I. 1987/2233

(3)

1973 c. 65