Part I Introductory

Preliminary

• 1 Children's homes
• 2 Independent hospitals etc
• 3 Care homes
• 4 Other basic definitions

Registration authorities

• 5 Registration authorities
• 6 National Care Standards Commission
• 7 General duties of the Commission
• 8 General functions of the Assembly
• 9 Co-operative working
• 10 Inquiries

Part II Establishments and Agencies

Registration

• 11 Requirement to register
• 12 Applications for registration
• 13 Grant or refusal of registration
• 14 Cancellation of registration
• 15 Applications by registered persons
• 16 Regulations about registration

Registration procedure

• 17 Notice of proposals
• 18 Right to make representations
• 19 Notice of decisions
• 20 Urgent procedure for cancellation etc
• 21 Appeals to the Tribunal

Regulations and standards

• 22 Regulation of establishments and agencies
• 23 National minimum standards

Offences

• 24 Failure to comply with conditions
• 25 Contravention of regulations
• 26 False descriptions of establishments and agencies
• 27 False statements in applications
• 28 Failure to display certificate of registration
• 29 Proceedings for offences
• 30 Offences by bodies corporate

Miscellaneous and supplemental

• 31 Inspections by persons authorised by registration authority
• 32 Inspections: supplementary
• 33 Annual returns
• 34 Liquidators etc
• 35 Death of registered person
• 36 Provision of copies of registers
• 37 Service of documents
• 38 Transfers of staff under Part II
• 39 Temporary extension of meaning of “nursing home”
• 40 Temporary extension of meaning of “children's home”
• 41 Children's homes: temporary provision about cancellation of registration
• 42 Power to extend the application of Part II

Part III Local Authority Services

• 43 Introductory
• 44 General powers of the Commission
• 45 Inspection by registration authority of adoption and fostering services
• 46 Inspections: supplementary
• 47 Action following inspection
• 48 Regulation of the exercise of relevant fostering functions
• 49 National minimum standards
• 50 Annual returns
• 51 Annual fee
• 52 Contravention of regulations
• 53 Offences: general provisions

Part IV Social Care Workers

Preliminary

• 54 Care Councils
• 55 Interpretation

Registration

• 56 The register
• 57 Applications for registration
• 58 Grant or refusal of registration
• 59 Removal etc from register
• 60 Rules about registration
• 61 Use of title “social worker” etc

Codes of practice

• 62 Codes of practice

Training

• 63 Approval of courses etc
• 64 Qualifications gained outside a Council's area
• 65 Post registration training
• 66 Visitors for certain social work courses
• 67 Functions of the appropriate Minister

Miscellaneous and supplemental

• 68 Appeals to the Tribunal
• 69 Publication etc of register
• 70 Abolition of Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work
• 71 Rules

Part V The Children's Commissioner for Wales

• 72 Children's Commissioner for Wales
• 73 Review and monitoring of arrangements
• 74 Examination of cases
• 75 Obstruction etc
• 76 Further functions
• 77 Restrictions
• 78 Interpretation

Part VI Child Minding and Day Care

• 79 Amendment of Children Act 1989

Part VII Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults

Protection of vulnerable adults

• 80 Basic definitions
• 81 Duty of Secretary of State to keep list
• 82 Persons who provide care for vulnerable adults: duty to refer
• 83 Employment agencies and businesses: duty to refer
• 84 Power of registration authority to refer
• 85 Individuals named in the findings of certain inquiries
• 86 Appeals against inclusion in list
• 87 Applications for removal from list
• 88 Conditions for application under section 87
• 89 Effect of inclusion in list
• 90 Searches of list under Part V of Police Act 1997
• 91 Access to list before commencement of section 90
• 92 Persons referred for inclusion in list under Protection of Children Act 1999
• 93 Power to extend Part VII

The list kept under section 1 of the 1999 Act

• 94 Employment agencies and businesses
• 95 Inclusion in 1999 Act list on reference by certain authorities
• 96 Inclusion in 1999 Act list of individuals named in findings of certain inquiries
• 97 Inclusion in 1999 Act list on reference under this Part
• 98 Individuals providing care funded by direct payments
• 99 Transfer from Consultancy Service Index of individuals named in past inquiries

Restrictions on working with children in independent schools

• 100 Additional ground of complaint
• 101 Effect of inclusion in 1996 Act list
• 102 Searches of 1996 Act list

General

• 103 Temporary provision for access to lists
• 104 Suitability to adopt a child: searches of lists

Part VIII Miscellaneous

Boarding schools and colleges

• 105 Welfare of children in boarding schools and colleges
• 106 Suspension of duty under section 87(3) of the 1989 Act
• 107 Boarding schools: national minimum standards
• 108 Annual fee for boarding school inspections
• 109 Inspection of schools etc by persons authorised by Secretary of State

Fostering

• 110 Extension of Part IX to school children during holidays

Employment agencies

• 111 Nurses Agencies

Charges for local authority welfare services

• 112 Charges for local authority welfare services

Part IX General and Supplemental

• 113 Default powers of appropriate Minister
• 114 Schemes for the transfer of staff
• 115 Effect of schemes
• 116 Minor and consequential amendments
• 117 Transitional provisions, savings and repeals
• 118 Orders and regulations
• 119 Supplementary and consequential provision etc
• 120 Wales
• 121 General interpretation etc
• 122 Commencement
• 123 Short title and extent
• SCHEDULE 1 The Commission and the Councils
• SCHEDULE 2 The Children's Commissioner for Wales
• SCHEDULE 3 Child Minding and Day Care for Young Children
• SCHEDULE 4 Minor and Consequential Amendments
• SCHEDULE 5 Transitional Provisions and Savings
• SCHEDULE 6 Repeals