Guidance
Practice Guidance: Placements in unregistered children’s homes in England or unregistered care home services in Wales
Published 2019-11-13Last updated 2022-07-26
President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has issued new practice guidance to explain the registration and regulation structure applicable in England and, separately, in Wales for residential care facilities for children and young people.
The Guidance requires the court to monitor the progress of the application for registration and, if registration is not achieved, to review its continued approval of the child’s placement in an unregistered unit.
The practice guidance can be read below.
Related guidance 5
Other guidance whose text is closest in subject to this document, found by similarity of wording rather than by citation.
- Addendum to Practice Guidance: Placements in unregistered children’s homes in England or unregistered care home services in Wales2022-07-06
- Revised Practice Guidance on the Court’s approach to unregistered placements2023-10-11
- Family Procedure Rules and Practice Directions2022-07-15
- Practice Guidance: Transition of matters from the national Deprivation of Liberty (DOL) list to the Court of Protection2025-01-10
- Civil Procedure Rules and Practice Directions2022-07-15