Sir Andrew MacFarlane, who launched a new National Deprivation of Liberty (DoL) court in July last year, states in guidance published earlier this month: “Ofsted and CIW (Care Inspectorate Wales) are the regulatory bodies, with statutory powers as to oversight of children’s homes, including where a child is placed in an unregistered home.”
“It is not for the court to become a regulatory body or the overseer of the regulatory process,” it adds.
The guidance replaces a previous iteration published in 2019 which set out the steps that the judges were encouraged take to establish whether a placement was registered, and if not, what they should do to speed up the registration process.
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