Commentary on Sections Part 1 .Social Care Chapter 1 .Provision of Social Care Services to Children: Restrictions on Profit Section 8 – Variation or cancellation of registration as a provider of a restricted children’s service
38.Section 8 amends the 2016 Act to include new provisions in relation to the variation or cancellation of registration as a provider of a restricted children’s service.
39.Subsection (2) amends section 11 (application for variation of registration as a service provider) by inserting a new subsection (4) which requires that an application to vary registration to provide a restricted children’s service must contain information to satisfy the Welsh Ministers that the service provider meets the requirement in section 6A(1).
40.Subsection (3) amends section 12 (grant or refusal of application for variation) to provide that the Welsh Ministers may only grant an application if they are satisfied that the service provider meets these requirements.
41.Subsection (4) amends section 13 (variation without application) to provide that the Welsh Ministers may vary a service provider’s registration to remove a restricted children’s service if the service provider does not meet the requirement in section 6A(1). Subsection (5) inserts new subsection (3A) which refers to paragraph 3(4)(a) of Schedule 1A under which there is provision made concerning the application of section 13 in relation to providers to which paragraph 2 of that Schedule applies.
42.Subsection (6)(a) amends section 15 (cancellation without application) to provide that the Welsh Ministers may cancel a service provider’s registration if each of the services that the service provider is registered in respect of is a restricted children’s service and the service provider does not meet the requirement in section 6A(1). Subsection (6)(b) inserts new subsection (1A) which refers to paragraph 3(4)(b) of Schedule 1A under which there is provision made concerning the application of section 15 in relation to providers to which paragraph 2 of that Schedule applies.