Residential family centre servicesE+W
4. The following things are not to be treated as a residential family centre service, despite paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Act (regulated services: definitions, residential family centre services)—
(a)the provision of accommodation for children and their parents where the accommodation is provided in a hospital M1;
(b)the provision of accommodation for children and their parents where the accommodation is provided in a hostel or a domestic violence refuge;
(c)in any other case, the provision of accommodation for children and their parents the main purpose of which is the provision of accommodation together with other services and facilities to adult individuals and the fact that those individuals may be parents, or may be accompanied by their children, is incidental to the main purpose of the provision of the accommodation.
Marginal Citations
M1“Hospital” is defined in paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the Act and includes an independent clinic.