The Regulated Adoption Services (Service Providers and Responsible Individuals) (Wales) Regulations 2019

Exceptions

3.—(1) The following services are not to be treated as an adoption service, despite paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act (regulated services: definitions, adoption service)—

(a) the provision of a service in relation to adoption by a person, in the course of a legal activity (within the meaning of the Legal Services Act 2007(1)), who is—

(i) an authorised person for the purposes of that Act, or

(ii) a European lawyer (within the meaning of the European Communities (Services of Lawyers) Order 1978(2));

(b) the provision of services to enable groups of adoptive children, adoptive parents and birth parents or former guardians of an adoptive child to discuss matters relating to adoption;

(c) the provision of respite care to an adoptive child or an adoptive parent by a care home service or domiciliary support service in respect of which a person is registered under chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Act;

(d) the provision of respite care in relation to an adoptive child consisting of child minding or day care within the meaning in Part 2 of the Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010(3) and in respect of which a person is registered for child minding or day care under that Part of that Measure;

(e) the provision of adoption support services by a person who provides those services—

(i) otherwise than in partnership with others, and

(ii) under a contract for services with—

(aa) a regulated adoption service, or

(bb) a local authority adoption service.

(2) In paragraph (1)(e), a person does not include the plural and is not a corporate body.

(1)

2007 c. 29.

(2)

S.I. 1978/1910.

(3)

2010 nawm 1 .