Employment of staffN.I.
30.—(1) The registered person shall—
(a)ensure that all permanent appointments of persons to its staff are subject to the satisfactory completion of a period of probation;
(b)operate a disciplinary procedure which, in particular—
(i)provides for suspension, and the taking of other action short of suspension, in relation to a member of staff where appropriate in the interests of service users and the proper operation of the agency; and
(ii)provides that a failure on the part of a member of staff to report an incident of abuse, or suspected abuse, of a service user placed by the agency to an appropriate person is a ground on which disciplinary proceedings may be instituted.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b)(ii), an appropriate person is the registered person, a police officer or an employee of the Regulation and Improvement Authority.