{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-adoption-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/schedule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-adoption-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/schedule-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2010/289",
  "legislation_title": "The Voluntary Adoption Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-adoption-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "EVENTS AND NOTIFICATIONS",
  "text": "Event\nTo be notified to\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\n. . .\nColumn 4\nColumn 5\nColumn 6\nColumn 7\nColumn 8\nRQIA\n. . .\nPlacing Authority\nRegional Board\nHSC Trust on behalf of whom the Agency is acting\nHSC Trust in area child is placed\nDirector of Public Health for Northern Ireland\nDeath of child placed for adoption by the agency or in the care of that agency pending placement\nYes\nYes\nYes\nYes\nYes\nReferral to the Independent Safeguarding Authority pursuant to Article 37 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 of an individual working for the agency.\nYes\nSerious illness of, or serious accident sustained by, a child placed for adoption by the agency or in the care of that agency pending placement\nYes\n. . .\nYes\nYes\nYes\nAny serious complaint about a prospective adopter approved by the agency where no child is placed for adoption with that prospective adopter\nYes\nAny serious complaint about a prospective adopter approved by the agency where a child is placed for adoption with that prospective adopter by the agency\nYes\nYes\nYes\nAny serious complaint about a prospective adopter approved by the agency where a child is placed for adoption with that prospective adopter by another agency\nYes\nYes\nYes\nYes\nInstigation and outcome of any child protection enquiry involving a child placed for adoption by the agency or in the care of that agency pending adoption\nYes\nYes\nYes\nYes",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 omitted (1.4.2022) by virtue of The Children’s Social Care (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/161), regs. 1, 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 in operation at 29.10.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 32 of the Health and Personal Social Services (NI) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/194 (N.I.1) as substituted by Schedule 6 of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act 2009 (C.1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Renamed under the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c.26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2007 No.1351 (N.I.11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/289/schedule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:25:39.910926+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."
}