A cross-sector template for meeting the Regulation 5 fit and proper persons requirement for directors, setting out the good character, qualifications, competence, health and evidence standards applied to every director.
This policy is fully drafted and structured, ready to brand and complete for your service. It covers:
1. Purpose
2. Scope
3. Policy statement and principles
4. Definitions
5. Legal and regulatory framework
6. The Fit and Proper Person Test framework: the five limbs
7. Schedule 4 Part 1: grounds that make a person unfit
8. Checks and evidence obtained before appointment
9. Ongoing assurance and annual attestation
10. Managing concerns, breaches and removal
11. Information sharing and references for departing directors
12. Data protection, confidentiality and equality
13. Roles and responsibilities
14. Training
15. Monitoring, audit and review
16. Related documents
17. Glossary
18. References
Legislation & standards it maps to
Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014
Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009
Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986
Insolvency Act 1986
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)
Data Protection Act 2018
Equality Act 2010
Who it applies to
This policy applies to all directors - executive, non-executive, permanent, interim, associate, shadow and de facto - together with anyone responsible for their nomination, appointment, appraisal or oversight, of [Organisation Name]
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