The Adoption Support Agencies (Wales) Regulations 2005

Staff disciplinary procedure

24.—(1) The registered person must operate a disciplinary procedure which, in particular —

(a) provides for the suspension of an employee where necessary in the interests of the safety or welfare of persons to whom the agency provides adoption support services;

(b) provides that the failure on the part of an employee to report, to an appropriate person, an incident of abuse, or suspected abuse, of a child is a ground on which disciplinary proceedings may be instituted.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), an appropriate person is —

(a) the registered person;

(b) an officer of the registration authority;

(c) a police officer;

(d) an officer of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; and

(e) an officer of a local authority in whose area the agency is situated.