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The Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015

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The quality and purpose of care standard

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6.—(1) The quality and purpose of care standard is that children receive care from staff who—

(a)understand the children’s home’s overall aims and the outcomes it seeks to achieve for children;

(b)use this understanding to deliver care that meets children’s needs and supports them to fulfil their potential.

(2) In particular, the standard in paragraph (1) requires the registered person to—

(a)understand and apply the home’s statement of purpose;

(b)ensure that staff—

(i)understand and apply the home’s statement of purpose;

(ii)protect and promote each child’s welfare;

(iii)treat each child with dignity and respect;

(iv)provide personalised care that meets each child’s needs, as recorded in the child’s relevant plans, taking account of the child’s background;

(v)help each child to understand and manage the impact of any experience of abuse or neglect;

(vi)help each child to develop resilience and skills that prepare the child to return home, to live in a new placement or to live independently as an adult;

(vii)provide to children living in the home the physical necessities they need in order to live there comfortably;

(viii)provide to children personal items that are appropriate for their age and understanding; and

(ix)make decisions about the day-to-day arrangements for each child, in accordance with the child’s relevant plans, which give the child an appropriate degree of freedom and choice;

(c)ensure that the premises used for the purposes of the home are designed and furnished so as to—

(i)meet the needs of each child; and

(ii)enable each child to participate in the daily life of the home; and

(d)ensure that any care that is arranged or provided for a child that—

(i)relates to the child’s development (within the meaning of section 17(11) of the Children Act 1989) or health; and

(ii)is not arranged or provided as part of the health service continued under section 1(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006(1),

satisfies the conditions in paragraph (3).

(3) The conditions are—

(a)that the care is approved, and kept under review throughout its duration, by the placing authority;

(b)that the care meets the child’s needs;

(c)that the care is delivered by a person who—

(i)has the experience, knowledge and skills to deliver that care; and

(ii)is under the supervision of a person who is appropriately skilled and qualified to supervise that care; and

(d)that the registered person keeps the child’s general medical practitioner informed, as necessary, about the progress of the care throughout its duration.

(1)

2006 c.41. Section 1 of the National Health Service Act 2006 was substituted by section 1 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7).

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