Local Health Boards (Functions) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Local Health Boards (Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2003 so as to extend the category of people for whom a Local Health Board (“LHB”) is responsible as a commissioner (and therefore also as funder) of services.

The amendments to the Principal Regulations have the effect of maintaining a Local Health Board’s responsibility for children in certain categories who come from the area but are then placed out of area and who would otherwise become the responsibility of another LHB by virtue of being “usually resident” in that area.

The children concerned are children looked after by local authorities, local authority care leavers, children resident at a school named in their statement of special educational needs and children with ongoing health needs and who, for any of those reasons, are placed out of their area.