{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-54.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1818",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/54",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Qualifications and experience of independent reviewing officers",
  "text": "(1) The IRO must be registered as a social worker in a register maintained by Social Care Wales or in the register of social workers in England maintained under section 39(1) of the Children and Social Work Act 2017 or in a corresponding register maintained under the law of Scotland or Northern Ireland.\n(2) The IRO must have sufficient relevant social work experience with children and families to perform the functions of an independent reviewing officer set out in section 100 of the 2014 Act and under these Regulations in an independent manner and having regard to C's best interests.\n(3) The responsible authority must not appoint any of the following as the IRO—\n(a) a person involved in preparing C's care and support plan or the management of C's case,\n(b) R,\n(c) C's personal adviser,\n(d) a person with management responsibilities in relation to a person mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c), or\n(e) a person with control over the resources allocated to the case.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 54(1) substituted (3.4.2017) by The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/52), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 33(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 54(1) substituted (2.12.2019) by The Children and Social Work Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments) (Social Workers) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1094), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 38(a); S.I. 2019/1436, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1818/regulation/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:39.085646+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."
}