{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-local-authorities-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-local-authorities-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/1512",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Support Services (Local Authorities) (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-local-authorities-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescribed services",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 2(6) of the 2002 Act (definition of “adoption support services”), the following services are prescribed —\n(a) financial support payable under regulation 11;\n(b) services to enable groups of adoptive children, adoptive parents and natural parents of an adoptive child to discuss matters relating to adoption;\n(c) assistance to adoptive children, adoptive parents, natural parents of an adoptive child and related persons in relation to arrangements for contact between an adoptive child and a natural parent or a related person of the adoptive child;\n(d) services that may be provided to an adoptive family in relation to the therapeutic needs of an adoptive child;\n(e) assistance for the purpose of ensuring the continuance of the relationship between the child and the child’s adoptive parent, including —\n(i) training for adoptive parents for the purpose of meeting any special needs of the child; and\n(ii) respite care; and\n(f) assistance where disruption of an adoption placement has occurred or is in danger of occurring including —\n(i) mediation; and\n(ii) organising and holding meetings to discuss disruptions in adoption placements.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2026/53",
      "affecting_title": "The Regulated Adoption Services (Service Providers and Responsible Individuals) and Adoption Support Services (Local Authorities) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/1512/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:06:08.434836+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."
}