Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 Explanatory Notes

Section 8 – Duty to issue a statement of the outcomes to be achieved

14.Section 8 requires the Welsh Ministers to issue a statement of the well-being outcomes that are to be achieved by the provision of care and support. It also sets a deadline by which the statement must be issued and specifies what must be included in the statement. The Welsh Ministers must keep the statement under review and may revise the statement if they consider this appropriate. The Welsh Ministers must consult such persons as they think fit before issuing or revising the statement and they must lay the issued or revised statement before the National Assembly for Wales and publish it.

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