{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-family-centres-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-family-centres-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/781",
  "legislation_title": "The Residential Family Centres (Wales) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-family-centres-wales-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Fitness of workers",
  "text": "(1) The registered person must not —\n(a) employ a person to work for the purposes of the residential family centre unless that person is fit to work for a residential family centre; or\n(b) allow a person to whom paragraph (2) applies, to work for the purposes of the residential family centre unless that person is fit to work for a residential family centre.\n(2) This paragraph applies to any person who is employed by a person other than the registered person in a position in which he may in the course of his duties have regular contact with residents.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person is not fit to work for a residential family centre unless —\n(a) he or she has the qualifications, skills and experience necessary for the work he or she is to perform;\n(b) he or she is physically and mentally fit for the purposes of the work he or she is to perform; and\n(c) full and satisfactory information in relation to each of the matters listed in Schedule 2 has been obtained in relation to him or her.\n(4) The registered person must take reasonable steps to ensure that any person working for a residential family centre who is not employed by the registered person and to whom paragraph (2) does not apply is appropriately supervised while carrying out his or her duties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/781/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:11:37.381086+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."
}