PLEASE NOTE: New Standards Published
April 2011: The Standards no longer apply, Tri.x have published a web enabled version of the new Children’s Homes and Fostering Standards, please follow this link:
www.minimumstandards.org
7. Specific Settings |
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Secure Accommodation and Refuges |
OUTCOME Children living in secure units or refuges receive the same measures to safeguard and promote their welfare as they should in other children’s homes. |
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| 36.1 | Apart from the measures necessary to the home’s status as a secure unit or refuge, children resident in secure units or refuges receive the same care services as they should in other children’s homes. |
| 36.2 | Children in secure accommodation within a home are cared for consistently with these national minimum standards, with only those adaptations essential in the home concerned for the maintenance of security. |
| 36.3 | Children in homes which are refuges approved under the Children Act 1989 are
looked after in accordance with these national minimum standards, with only those
adaptations essential in the home concerned as a result of its status as a refuge. [Children Act 1989, Sections 22, 61, 64, Regulation 11] |