The Integrated Family Support Teams (Review of Cases) (Wales) Regulations 2010

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations establish requirements about how local authorities must review the cases of the families who are supported by Integrated Family Support (“IFS”) teams. The requirements for the local authority to review a case do not apply in relation to a child whose case is already subject to review under the Review of Children’s Cases (Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/307) (“the Review Regulations”) by virtue of being “looked after” as defined in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989.

These Regulations also make amendments to the Review Regulations so that the requirements for the review of cases of looked after children take account of the involvement of IFS teams in a number of specified ways.

Regulation 2 requires a local authority to review the cases of families whose cases are supported by an IFS team but excepts cases of looked after children.

Regulation 3 sets out when a case must first be reviewed and at what intervals subsequent reviews must take place. Regulation 4 requires a local authority to set out in writing its arrangements for reviewing cases and requires that the local authority coordinates the review. The matters to be dealt with in the review are dealt with in Schedule 1.

Regulation 5 and Schedule 2 set out all the matters which a local authority must take into account in reviewing cases. Regulation 6 sets out the requirements about who must be consulted before a review, who must participate in it and who should be notified afterwards.

Regulation 7 creates a duty for a local authority to implement the decisions taken at a review. Regulation 8 requires that information provided for a review, together with minutes, and any decisions of a review, are recorded in writing.

Regulation 9 makes amendments to the Review Regulations to include a requirement that a member of an IFS team is involved in the review of the case of a looked after child whose family’s case is supported by such a team. It also amends the Review Regulations so that notification of referral of a case to an IFS team is a trigger for a review of the case of a looked after child. A schedule of additional matters to be taken into account in the case of a looked after child whose family is being supported by an IFS team is included to become Schedule 4 of the Review Regulations.