Clause 26
Children and Young Persons Bill [Lords]
5:15 pm
Hywel Williams (Spokesperson (Children, Schools & Families; Health; International Development; Treasury; Work and Pensions); Caernarfon, Plaid Cymru)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 37—Duty to collect and provide information for inspections—
‘In section 22(7) of the 2000 Act (regulation of establishments and agencies) after paragraph (1) insert—
“(m) make provision requiring the person who carries on, or manages, a children’s home to collect statistics on—
(i) instances of children going missing from the home;
(ii) instances of anti-social or violent behaviour by children accommodated at the home of a serious nature; and
(iii) acts of criminal damage perpetrated by such children,
and to provide such information, upon request, to any person authorised by the registration authority to inspect the premises.”’.
New clause 38—Consultation prior to preparation of inspection reports—
‘In section 32 of the 2000 Act (inspections: supplementary) after subsection (5) insert—
“(5A) Before preparing a report in relation to the inspection of a children’s home under subsection (5)(a) the registration authority must—
(a) inform the local authorities which have placed children in the children’s home and, if different, the authorities in which children have been placed; and
(b) seek views on the performance of that home from—
(i) the Local Safeguarding Children Board established under the Children Act 2004 (c. 31) by the children’s services authority (within the meaning of that Act) in whose area the home is situated, and
(ii) the person designated under section 20 of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 at any school attended by children in the home inspected.”’.
New clause 39—Provision of inspection reports—
‘In section 32 of the 2000 Act (inspections: supplementary) after subsection (6) insert—
“(6A) The registration authority shall provide copies of any report prepared in relation to a children’s home under subsection (5) to every children’s services authority within the meaning of the Children Act 2004 which has placed a child in the home and to each Local Safeguarding Children Board established by each of those authorities.”’.