The person in charge or, for one particular type of notification, the registered provider of a children’s special care designated centre must notify the Office of the Chief Inspector of the occurrence of certain events in your centre. The Office of the Chief Inspector refers to these as monitoring notifications.

The duties of the person in charge and the registered provider in relation to these monitoring notifications are set out in the Health Act 2007 (Care and Welfare of Children in Special Care Units) Regulations 2017 (as amended), specifically in Regulation 27 and Schedule 6. In this guidance document, ‘the regulations’ referred to is this set of regulations.

The guidance has been updated to include information on the requirement for notifiable incidents to be submitted as set out under the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023. This notification requirement relates to unintended or unanticipated certain deaths of children of designated centres (“notifiable incidents”).