Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016

10 Annual return

(1) A service provider must submit an annual return to the Welsh Ministers following the end of each financial year during which the provider is registered.

(2) An annual return must contain—

(a) the following information—

(i) the regulated services that the service provider is registered to provide;

(ii) the places at, from or in relation to which the provider is registered to provide those services;

(iii) the name of the responsible individual registered in respect of each such place;

(iv) the date on which the provider’s registration took effect in respect of each such regulated service and place;

(v) details of any other conditions imposed on the service provider’s registration;

(vi) details of the number of persons to whom the provider provided care and support during the year in the course of providing each such service;

(vii) such information about training offered or undertaken in relation to each such service as may be prescribed;

(viii) such information about workforce planning as may be prescribed;

(ix) such other information as may be prescribed, and

(b) a statement setting out how the service provider has complied with any regulations made under section 27(1) specifying the standard of care and support that must be provided by a service provider (see section 27(2)).

(3) An annual return must be in the prescribed form.

(4) An annual return must be submitted to the Welsh Ministers within the prescribed time limit.

(5) The Welsh Ministers must publish each annual return submitted under subsection (1).

(6) Despite section 187(3), a statutory instrument containing—

(a) the first regulations made under subsection (2)(a)(vii),

(b) the first regulations made under subsection (2)(a)(viii), or

(c) the first regulations made under subsection (2)(a)(ix),

may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales.