PART 6

LOOKED AFTER AND ACCOMMODATED CHILDREN

Accommodation duties

Duty to secure accommodation: procedure if draft plan not approved by Welsh Ministers
75C
1
This section applies if the Welsh Ministers decide not to approve a draft of an annual sufficiency plan submitted to them by a local authority under section 75B.
2
The Welsh Ministers must notify the local authority setting out—
a
the reasons for the decision;
b
the period before the end of which the local authority must submit a further draft of the plan to the Welsh Ministers.
3
The local authority must submit a further draft of the plan together with a report explaining how, in preparing the draft, the local authority has taken account of the reasons set out in the notice given under subsection (2).
4
Section 75B(4) applies where the Welsh Ministers approve a further draft submitted to them under this section as it applies where the Welsh Ministers approve a draft submitted to them under section 75B.
5
Subsections (2) and (3) apply where the Welsh Ministers decide not to approve a further draft submitted to them under this section as they apply where the Welsh Ministers decide not to approve a draft submitted to them under section 75B.
Ss. 75A-75C inserted (1.1.2026 for specified purposes) by Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 1), ss. 11, 29(2); S.I. 2025/1257, art. 2(1)(e)