Office of Public Sector Information
3.—(1) For the purposes of section 12(2) of the Act, and subject to paragraph (2), the fee to accompany—
(a) an application by a person seeking to be registered under Part 2 of the Act as a person who carries on a care home or an adult placement scheme shall be £2,186; and
(b) an application by a person seeking to be registered under Part 2 of the Act as a person who carries on an agency shall be £1,822.
(2) Where the care home is a small care home, the agency is a small agency or the adult placement scheme is a small scheme, the fee shall be—
(a) in the case of an application referred to in paragraph (1)(a), £596; and
(b) in the case of an application referred to in paragraph (1)(b), £497.
(3) For the purposes of section 12(2) of the Act, the fee to accompany an application by a person seeking to be registered under Part 2 of the Act as a person who manages a care home, agency or adult placement scheme, other than a small care home, small agency or small scheme, shall be—
(a) in respect of a care home, £596;
(b) in respect of an agency, £497.
4.—(1) For the purposes of section 15(3) of the Act, the fee to accompany an application by the registered provider under section 15(1)(a) of the Act (“the variation fee”) shall, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), be—
(a) in respect of a care home or an adult placement scheme, £1,093;
(b) in respect of an agency, £911.
(2) Where the care home is a small care home, the agency is a small agency or the adult placement scheme is a small scheme, the fee shall be—
(a) in the case of an application referred to in paragraph (1)(a), £596;
(b) in the case of an application referred to in paragraph (1)(b), £497.
(3) In a case where the variation of a condition is a minor variation, the variation fee shall be—
(a) in the case of an application referred to in paragraph (1)(a), £99; and
(b) in the case of an application referred to in paragraph (1)(b), £83.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3) a “minor variation” is a variation which, in the opinion of the CSCI(8), if the application for the variation of the condition were granted, would involve no material alteration in the register kept by the CSCI in accordance with regulations made under section 11(4) of the Act.
5.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), the registered provider, in respect of a care home, agency or adult placement scheme specified in column (1) of the Table below shall pay an annual fee and—
(a) the amount of the annual fee shall be—
(i) in the case of an agency or adult placement scheme, the amount specified in column (2); or
(ii) in the case of a care home, the sum of the amount specified in column (2) and the amount specified in column (3) multiplied by the number of approved places at the care home concerned; and
(b) shall be payable for the year beginning 1st April 2007 and subsequent years in accordance with column (4).
Column (1) Care home, agency or adult placement scheme |
Column (2) Flat rate payable in all cases |
Column (3) Rate payable for each approved place |
Column (4) Annual fee due |
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| (a) | Care home | £297 | £99 | (a) | in the case of an existing provider, on the anniversary of the date on which the annual fee was payable under the 1984 Act; | |||
| (b) | in the case of a previously exempt provider, each year on 1st April; and | |||||||
| (c) | in the case of a new provider— | |||||||
| (i) | if the certificate was issued before 1st April 2007, each year on the anniversary of the date of issue; | |||||||
| (ii) | otherwise, on the date on which the certificate is issued, and thereafter on the anniversary of that date. | |||||||
| (b) | Domiciliary care agency | £1,242 | (a) | if the certificate was issued— | ||||
| (i) | before 1st April 2003, each year on 1st April, or | |||||||
| (ii) | on or after 1st April 2003 and before 1st April 2007, each year on the anniversary of the date on which the certificate was issued; or | |||||||
| (b) | otherwise, on the date on which the certificate is issued and thereafter on the anniversary of that date. | |||||||
| (c) | Nurses agency | £828 | (a) | in the case of an existing provider— | ||||
| (i) | where the licence under the 1957 Act was granted to the provider by the local authority between 1st January 2002 and 31st March 2002, on the anniversary first occurring after 1st April 2007 of the date on which the licence was granted, and thereafter on the anniversary of that date; | |||||||
| (ii) | where the licence under the 1957 Act was granted to the provider by the local authority on or after 1st April 2002 but before 1st April 2003, on the anniversary first occurring on or after 1st April 2007 of the date on which the licence was granted, and thereafter on the anniversary of that date; | |||||||
| (iii) | whose licence under the 1957 Act continued to be treated as valid after 31st December 2002 by virtue of article 4(1)(a) of the relevant order, on the anniversary first occurring on or after 1st April 2007 of the date on which the fee payable in relation to the making of an application for a licence under the 1957 Act was last paid, and thereafter on the anniversary of that date; | |||||||
| (iv) | whose licence under the 1957 Act continued to be treated as valid after 31st December 2002 by virtue of article 4(1)(b) of the relevant order— | |||||||
| (aa) | where the licence was granted to the provider by the local authority on or after 1st January 2001 but before 1st April 2001, on the anniversary first occurring after 1st April 2007 of the date on which the licence was granted, and thereafter on the anniversary of that date; | |||||||
| (bb) | where the licence was granted to the provider by the local authority on or after 1st April 2001 but before 1st January 2002, on the anniversary first occurring on or after 1st April 2007 of the date on which the fee payable in relation to the making of an application for a licence under the 1957 Act was last paid, and thereafter on the anniversary of that date; and | |||||||
| (b) | in the case of a new provider— | |||||||
| (i) | where the certificate was issued on or after 1st April 2003 and before 1st April 2007, each year on the anniversary of the date on which the certificate was issued, or | |||||||
| (ii) | otherwise, on the date on which the certificate is issued, and thereafter on the anniversary of that date. | |||||||
| (d) | Adult placement scheme | £1,987 | (a) | in the case of a certificate issued before 1st April 2007, on the anniversary of the date on which the certificate was issued; or | ||||
| (b) | otherwise, on the date on which the certificate is issued and thereafter on the anniversary of that date. | |||||||
(2) In the case of a care home which is a small care home, the annual fee shall be £199.
(3) In the case of an agency which is a small agency, the annual fee payable shall be 50 per cent. of the flat rate specified in column (2).
(4) In the case of an adult placement scheme which is a small scheme, the annual fee shall be £994.
See section 148 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) for the definition of the CSCI and section 102 of that Act for the transfer of functions from the National Care Standards Commission to the CSCI. Back [8]
The Commission for Social Care Inspection (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) Regulations 2007