{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/154",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Agencies (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Duties of adoption agency following placement for adoption",
  "text": "(1) Where a child has been placed for adoption by an adoption agency with a prospective adopter the adoption agency must–\n(a) ensure that the child is visited on its behalf within one week of the placement and thereafter on such other occasions as the adoption agency considers necessary in order to supervise the child’s well being; and\n(b) ensure that written reports on such visits are produced and retained on the child’s case record kept in accordance with regulation 27.\n(2) The requirement at paragraph (1)(a) will cease to apply where an adoption order is made vesting parental responsibilities and parental rights in relation to the child in the prospective adopter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "appl (mod)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/182",
      "affecting_title": "The Adoptions with a Foreign Element (Scotland) Regulations 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/154/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:01:53.811768+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}