(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which apply in relation to England only, amend Part 4 of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Children’s Homes etc) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/694), in so far as that Part applies to fostering agencies, residential family centres, boarding schools, residential colleges, residential special schools and local authority adoption functions.
These Regulations reduce or cap the annual fees that are to be paid under the Care Standards Act 2000, the Education and Inspections Act 2006 and the Children Act 1989 to the Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills in respect of fostering agencies, residential family centres, boarding schools, residential colleges, residential special schools and in respect of local authority adoption functions. These fees would otherwise be greater than the actual average cost of compliance or, as the case may be, inspection, for providers in each of those categories.
For providers in these categories where the annual fee has become payable between 1st April 2009 and 1st November 2009, but has not yet been paid, the fee will be payable on 2nd November 2009.
The Explanatory Memorandum is available alongside this instrument on the OPSI website (www.opsi.gov.uk).