The Care Standards Act 2000 (Registration)(England) Regulations 2010

PART 3 Registers and Certificates of Registration

Registers

7.—(1) The CI shall keep a register in respect of the following establishments and agencies—

(a) children’s homes;

(b) residential family centres;

(c) fostering agencies;

(d) voluntary adoption agencies; and

(e) adoption support agencies.

(2) Each register shall contain, in relation to each establishment or agency in respect of which a person is registered under the Act, the particulars specified in Schedule 5.

(3) The register may be kept in electronic form, provided that the information so recorded is capable of being reproduced in a legible form.

(4) When the register in respect of an establishment or agency other than a children’s home is being made available for inspection or a copy of, or extract from, that register is being provided under section 36(1) or (2) of the Act to a person other than a local authority, none of the particulars listed in paragraphs 1, 2 and 10 of Schedule 5 shall be provided.

(5) When the register in respect of a children’s home is being made available for inspection or a copy of, or extract from, that register is being provided under section 36(1) or (2) of the Act to any person other than a local authority, none of the information in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 10 of Schedule 5 shall be provided and any inspection report in that register shall not contain the name and address of the children’s home or any other information by which the children’s home could be identified.

Contents of certificate

8.  A certificate of registration issued by the CI shall contain the following particulars—

(a) the name, address and telephone number of the CI;

(b) the name and address of the registered provider;

(c) where the person is an organisation, the name of the responsible individual;

(d) the name of the registered manager;

(e) the description of the establishment or agency by reference to a description of establishment or agency specified in section 4(8)(a) or (9)(a) of the Act;

(f) where the registration is subject to any condition, details of the condition;

(g) the date of registration;

(h) a statement, that if an establishment or agency is not carried on in accordance with the relevant requirements and any conditions, the registration is liable to be cancelled by the CI;

(i) a statement that the certificate relates only to the person to whom it is issued by the CI and is not capable of being transferred to another person;

(j) in the case of a voluntary adoption agency or adoption support agency, the address of the principal office and any branch of the agency;

(k) in the case of a fostering agency, the address of any branch of the agency.

Return of certificate

9.  If the registration of a person in respect of an establishment or agency is cancelled, that person shall, not later than the day on which the decision or order cancelling the registration takes effect, return the certificate of registration to the CI by—

(a) delivering it to the CI; or

(b) sending it to the CI by registered post or recorded delivery.