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The Care Standards Tribunal is the name given to the Tribunal established under the Protection of Children Act 1999. It handles appeals provided for under the legislation listed on the ‘Relevant legislation' page of this website.
The CST considers appeals in relation to the following decisions:
Decisions of the Secretary of State for Education and Skills in relation to:
- Inclusion of individuals' names on the list of those considered unsuitable to work with children (the PoCA list). This function was transferred from the Department of Health;
- restriction or prohibition from teaching, acting as proprietor of independent schools and employment in schools /further education institutions;
- registration of independent schools
Decisions of the National Care Standards Commission in England and the National Assembly for Wales in respect the registration of:
- Care homes
- Children's homes
- Private and voluntary healthcare
- Residential Family Centres
- Domiciliary care agencies
- Nurses agencies and medical agencies
- Fostering agencies and voluntary adoption agencies
And:
- A refusal to waive disqualification of a person from providing, managing, having a financial involvement in or being employed in a children's home.
Decisions of the Chief Inspector of Schools in England and the National Assembly for Wales in respect of the:
- Registration of childminders and day care providers for children under 8 years
- Approval of home child care providers
- Registration of early years child care Inspectors and nursery education inspectors
- Disqualification and refusal to waive disqualification from registration as a child minder or day care provider. (Regulations will come into force in 2004).
Decisions of the General Social Care Council and the Care Council Wales in respect of:
- social workers' entry on the register of social care.
The CST will also in the future hear appeals against decisions to include the names of individuals on the list of those considered unsuitable to work with vulnerable adults as provided under section 80 of the Care Standards Act 2000. However, this list is not yet operational. |