The Adoption Support Agencies (England) and Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005

Notifiable events

24.—(1) If, in relation to an agency, any of the events listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 4 (“the table”) takes place, the registered person shall without delay notify the person indicated in respect of the event in column 2 of the table.

(2) Any notification made in accordance with this regulation which is given orally shall be confirmed in writing by the registered person within 14 days.

(3) In the table—

“Local Health Board” means the Local Health Board(1) in whose area the child who has died or sustained serious injury in the course of receiving adoption support services was living at the time of the incident;

“Primary Care Trust” means the Primary Care Trust in whose area the child who has died or sustained serious injury in the course of receiving adoption support services was living at the time of the incident; and

“relevant authority” means—

(a)

the local authority in whose area the agency is situated; and

(b)

in relation to a child who has died or sustained serious injury in the course of receiving adoption support services, any other local authority on behalf of whom the agency is providing adoption support services to that child by virtue of section 3(4)(b) of the 2002 Act.

(1)

Local Health Boards are established under the National Health Service Act 1977, section 16B (c.49), and Primary Care Trusts are established under section 16A of that Act; those sections were inserted by the Health Act 1999, section 2 (c.8). Section 16A was amended by the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002, section 2(1) to (3) (c.17); section 16B was amended by that Act, Schedule 1, paragraphs 1 and 4 and Schedule 5, paragraphs 4 and 6, and by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003, section 182(1) (c.43).