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These Regulations may be cited as the Regulation of Care (Requirements as to Care Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 20th June 2006.
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(1) The Regulation of Care (Requirements as to Care Services) (Scotland) Regulations 2002 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation) insert after the definition of “health care professional”–“
 “personal plan” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 5(1);”.
(3) In regulation 1(5) (interpretation), after “nurse agency” insert “or an adult placement service,”.
(4) In regulation 4(4) (welfare of users), for “or a fostering service” substitute “, a fostering service or an adult placement service”.
(5) After regulation 11 (fitness in relation to child minding) insert–“
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A provider of an adult placement service shall not place any service user in premises in which there is any person living who is unfit to be in the proximity of the service user.”
(6) For regulation 15 (quality of independent healthcare) substitute–“
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(1) A provider of an independent health care service shall ensure that they provide a care service which is appropriate to and meets the service user’s needs as set out in the personal plan.
(2) Such provider is also required to–
(a) introduce and maintain a system to manage risk associated with or arising from the care and treatment and to review the quality of treatment and other services provided by the care service , which review shall involve consultation with service users; and
(b) produce a written record of the outcome of the review carried out under sub-paragraph (a) above and make this record available to the Commission and service users.”.
(7) After regulation 19(6) (records) insert–“
(7) The requirements in paragraph (3)(h), (j) and (k) shall not apply to the provider of an adult placement service.”.
LEWIS MACDONALD
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
19th May 2006