Regulation 32 Disciplinary procedures

England and Wales

(1)

The local authority provider must put in place and operate a disciplinary procedure.

(2)

The disciplinary procedure must include—

(a)

provision for the suspension, and the taking of action short of suspension, of employees in the interests of the safety or well-being of children receiving care and support from the service, and

(b)

provision that a failure on the part of an employee to report an incident of abuse, or suspected abuse, to an appropriate person, is grounds on which disciplinary proceedings may be instituted.

(3)

For the purpose of paragraph (2)(b), an appropriate person is—

(a)

an officer of the Welsh Ministers,

(b)

the local authority provider,

(c)

an officer of the local authority,

(d)

in the case of an incident of abuse or suspected abuse of a child, an officer of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, or

(e)

a police officer,

as the case may be.