Local Area Risk Assessment – LARA

Please note: The fee exclude travel costs. The travel costs will depend on the location required to conduct the assessment.

According to regulatory requirements, the location assessment must show the steps you have taken to make sure that the home is needed locally, is in the right place and is safe, and that you promote positive opportunities for children:

• Carry out a risk assessment of the area before the opening of the home and then at regular intervals;
• Put in place appropriate safeguards where risks had been identified before a home opens (or where new risks appear over time); and
• Collaborate with the police and the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB)at all stages of this process, not just in putting the safeguards in place but also in trying to identify the risks in the first place.

Legislation this advice refers to:

• The Children’s Homes Regulations 2001 [Regulation 31(1A)] (“the Children’s Homes Regulations”); and
• The Care Standards Act 2000 (Registration) (England) Regulations 2010 (“the

Registration Regulations”) [Schedule 1(13)] (as amended by The Children’s

Homes and Looked-after Children (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England)

Regulations 2013).

Who is this advice for?

This advice is for:

• Children’s homes providers and managers;
• Potential providers of new children’s homes; and
• Local children’s services, police services and others who may be contacted in relation to a children’s home location assessment.

Our team will contact you once we receive the payment to start the operations.