{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-agencies-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-agencies-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/1514",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Support Agencies (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-agencies-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Staff disciplinary procedure",
  "text": "(1) The registered person must operate a disciplinary procedure which, in particular —\n(a) provides for the suspension of an employee where necessary in the interests of the safety or welfare of persons to whom the agency provides adoption support services;\n(b) provides that the failure on the part of an employee to report, to an appropriate person, an incident of abuse, or suspected abuse, of a child is a ground on which disciplinary proceedings may be instituted.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), an appropriate person is —\n(a) the registered person;\n(b) an officer of the registration authority;\n(c) a police officer;\n(d) an officer of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; and\n(e) an officer of a local authority in whose area the agency is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/1514/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:06:06.911185+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."
}