The National Care Standards Commission (Registration) Regulations 2001

Information about the applicant

1.  Where the applicant is an individual—

(a) if he intends to carry on the establishment or agency in partnership with others, the information specified in the following sub-paragraphs of this paragraph in relation to each partner of the firm;

(b) the responsible person’s full name, date of birth, address and telephone number;

(c) details of his professional or technical qualifications, and experience of carrying on an establishment or agency, so far as such qualifications and experience are relevant to providing services for persons to whom services are to be provided at the establishment or by the agency;

(d) details of his employment history, including the name and address of his present employer and of any previous employers;

(e) details of any business he carries on or has carried on;

(f) the name and addresses of two referees—

(i) who are not relatives of the responsible person;

(ii) each of whom is able to provide a reference as to the responsible person’s competence to carry on an establishment or agency of the same description as the establishment or agency; and

(iii) one of whom has employed the responsible person for a period of at least 3 months,

but the requirement for the name and address of a referee who has employed the responsible person for a period of at least 3 months shall not apply where it is impracticable to obtain a reference from a person who fulfils that requirement;

(g) where any certificate or information on any matters referred to in paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 is not available to the responsible person because any provision of the Police Act 1997 has not been brought into force, details of any criminal offences—

(i) of which the responsible person has been convicted, including details of any convictions which are spent within the meaning of section 1 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974(1) and which may be disclosed by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975(2); or

(ii) in respect of which he has been cautioned by a constable and which, at the time the caution was given, he admitted.

(1)

1974 c. 53.

(2)

S.I. 1975/1023. Relevant amendments have been made by S.I. 1986/1249, 1986/2268, 2001/1192.