The Children (Secure Accommodation) AmendmentRegulations 1995

• Citation: S.I. 1995/1398
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Children (Secure Accommodation) Amendment Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 23rd June 1995.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Children (Secure Accommodation) Regulations 1991 .

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) there shall be inserted after the definition of “the Act” the following definition—

“children’s home” means a registered children’s home, a community home or a voluntary home;

Section 3 Amendment of regulations 3, 4, 9, 14, 15, 16 and 17 of the principal Regulations

In regulations 3, 4, 9, 14, 15, 16(1)(b) and 17 of the principal Regulations for the words “community home” on each occasion they appear there shall be substituted the words “children’s home”.

Section 4 Amendment of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 9 of the principal Regulations (duty to give information of placement in children’s homes) for the words “in a community home which is managed by an authority other than that which are looking after him the local authority which manage” there shall be substituted the words “in a children’s home which is managed by a person, organization or authority other than the local authority which is looking after him, the person who, or the organization or the authority which manages”.

Section 5 Amendment of regulation 16 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 16(2) of the principal Regulations (review of placement in secure accommodation in a children’s home) for sub-paragraph (f) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

(f) the person, organization or local authority managing the secure accommodation in which the child is placed if that accommodation is not managed by the authority which is looking after that child.

Section 6 Revocation

Regulation 18 of the principal Regulations (prohibition on provision of secure accommodation by voluntary homes and registered children’s homes) is revoked.