The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Wales) Regulations 2015

Preparation and content of the care and support plan E+W

5.—(1) The care and support plan must include a record of the following information—

(a) the long term plan for C's upbringing (“the plan for permanence”);

(b) the arrangements made by the responsible authority to meet C's needs in relation to—

(i) health, including the information set out in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 (“the health plan”),

F1 (ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(iii) emotional and behavioural development,

(iv) identity, with particular regard to C's religious persuasion, racial origin, sexual orientation, and cultural and linguistic background,

(v) family and social relationships and in particular the information set out in paragraph 3 of Schedule 2,

(vi) social presentation, and

(vii) self-care skills;

(c) except in a case where C is in the care of the responsible authority but is not provided with accommodation by it by any of the means referred to in section 81 of the 2014 Act, details of the arrangements made and accommodation provided for C (“the placement plan”);

(d) the name of the IRO;

(e) details of the views, wishes and feelings of those persons ascertained and considered by the responsible authority in accordance with sections 6(2) and (4), 7(2) and 78(3) of the 2014 Act about the arrangements referred to in sub-paragraph (b), the placement plan and any change, or proposed change in the care and support plan;

(f) where C is—

(i) a victim, or there is reason to believe C may be a victim, of trafficking in human beings within the meaning of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings,

(ii) an unaccompanied asylum seeking child within the meaning of the Immigration Rules and has applied, or has indicated to the responsible authority an intention to apply, for asylum and has not been granted indefinite leave to remain,

that fact.

[F2 (1A) The personal education plan (see section 83(2A) to (2D) of the 2014 Act) must include the information set out in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2.]

(2) In this regulation, “Immigration Rules” (“Rheolau Mewnfudo”) means the rules for the time being laid down by the Secretary of State as mentioned in section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 M1 .

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 5(1)(b)(ii) omitted (1.9.2021) by virtue of The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/860), regs. 1, 6(a)

F2 Reg. 5(1A) inserted (1.9.2021) by The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/860), regs. 1, 6(b)

Marginal Citations

M1 1981 c. 77.