{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-service-england-regulations-2003/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-service-england-regulations-2003/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/370",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authority Adoption Service (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-service-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Employment of staff",
  "text": "(1) Each local authority shall—\n(a) ensure that all permanent appointments made by the authority for the purposes of the adoption service are subject to the satisfactory completion of a period of probation; and\n(b) provide all employees employed by the authority for the purposes of the adoption service with a job description outlining their responsibilities.\n(2) The authority shall ensure that all persons employed by the authority for the purposes of the adoption service—\n(a) receive appropriate training, supervision and appraisal; and\n(b) are enabled from time to time to obtain further qualifications appropriate to the work they perform.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/370/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:44.589532+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."
}