The Providers of Social Work Services (England) Regulations 2013
Made: 16th October 2013
Laid before Parliament: 21st October 2013
Coming into force: 12th November 2013
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PART 1 — General
Citation, commencement and application
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Interpretation and Disapplication of the Care Standards Act (Registration) (England) Regulations 2010
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PART 2 — Fitness
Fitness of registered provider
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Appointment of manager
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Fitness of manager
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Notification of offences
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Staffing
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Fitness of employees
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Employment of staff
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Fitness of premises
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Notice of changes
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Amendments to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections)(Children’s Homes etc.) Regulations 2007
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PART 3 — Applications for Registration
Information and documents to be provided by an applicant
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Interview
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Notice of changes
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Information as to staff engaged after application made
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PART 4 — Registers and Certificates of Registration
Registers
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Contents of certificate
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Return of certificate
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PART 5 — Conditions and Reports
Application for variation or removal of a condition
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Report as to financial viability
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Cancellation of registration
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Application for cancellation of registration
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PART 6 — Miscellaneous
Electronic transmission
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Transitional provision
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SCHEDULE 1 — Information required in respect of persons seeking to carry on, manage or be employed to work at a social work service
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SCHEDULE 2 — Amendment of the Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Children’s Homes etc.) Regulations 2007
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SCHEDULE 3 — Information to be supplied on an application for registration as a provider of social work services
PART 1 — Information about the applicant
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PART 2 — Information about the service and proposed arrangements under section 1 of the CYPA 2008
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PART 3 — Further information about staff
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SCHEDULE 4 — Documents to be supplied on an application for registration as a provider of social work services
Documents concerning applicant
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Disclosure and barring service checks
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SCHEDULE 5 — Information and documents to be supplied on an application for registration as the manager
PART 1 — Information
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PART 2 — Documents
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SCHEDULE 6 — Particulars to be recorded in the registers kept by HMCI
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Signed
Edward Timpson — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Education — 16th October 2013
Explanatory note
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Footnotes
[^f00001]: 2000 c.14 (“the Act). The powers are conferred upon the “appropriate Minister” who is defined in section 121(1) of the Act, in relation to England, as the Secretary of State. See section 121(1) of the Act for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.
[^f00002]: See section 22(9) of the Act for the requirement to consult.
[^f00003]: 2008 c 23. Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 enables local authorities to enter into arrangements with a provider of social work services for the discharge by that body of some or all of the authority’s social services functions in relation to individual children who are looked after by the local authority and in relation to care leavers.
[^f00004]: S.I. 2002/233.
[^f00005]: Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills is appointed under section 113 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
[^f00006]: 1997 c.50.
[^f00007]: 2012 c 9.
[^f00008]: 2006 c.47.
[^f00009]: S.I. 2010/2130.
[^f00010]: Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 requires providers of social work services to be bodies corporate.
[^f00011]: Section 2 of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 provides for the functions to be discharged by, or under the supervision of, registered social workers.
[^f00012]: S.I.2007/694. Amended by S.I. 2009/2724, S.I. 2010/617, S.I. 2011/553, S.I. 2012/511 and S.I. 2013/523.
[^f00013]: Section 12(2)(b) of the Care Standards Act 2000 also provides that the application must give other information which the registration authority reasonably requires the applicant to give.
[^f00014]: Section 13(4) of the Care Standards Act 2000 requires a certificate of registration to be issued to an applicant by the registration authority on the granting of an application.
[^f00015]: Section 14 of the Care Standards Act 2000 also provides grounds for cancellation of a registration.
Editorial notes
[^key-72aeb433b25e545a52b60f705741046d]: Regulations revoked (26.5.2015) by The Deregulation Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/971), art. 1(2)(a), Sch. 4 para. 1
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