Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025

1. Introduction

2. Policy Background

3. General Overview of the Act

4. Commentary on Sections

   1. Part 1

      Social Care

      1. Chapter 1

         Provision of Social Care Services to Children: Restrictions on Profit

         1. Section 1 – Overview of Chapter 1

         2. Section 2 – Restricted children’s services

         3. Section 3 – Applications for registration in respect of restricted children’s services

         4. Section 4 – Registration in respect of a restricted children's service: transitional arrangements

         5. Section 5 – Grant or refusal of registration in respect of a restricted children’s service

         6. Section 6 – Fit and proper person: relevant considerations

         7. Section 7 – Providers of restricted children’s services: information contained in annual return

         8. Section 8 – Variation or cancellation of registration as a provider of a restricted children’s service

         9. Section 9 – Restricted children’s services: information contained in the register of service providers

         10. Section 10 – Local authority duty to secure sufficient accommodation

         11. Section 11 – Duty to prepare and publish an annual sufficiency plan

         12. Section 12 – Duty to secure accommodation: reporting

         13. Section 13 – Ways in which looked after children are to be accommodated

      2. Chapter 2

         Miscellaneous Amendments in Relation to Social Care Services, Social Care Workers and Local Authority Social Care Functions

         1. Section 14 – Duty to submit and publish annual return

         2. Section 15 – Application for cancellation of service provider’s registration: information to be provided

         3. Section 16 – Cancellation and variation of service provider’s registration without application: notice procedures

         4. Section 17 – Information, inspection and investigations

         5. Section 18 – Meaning of social care worker: childcare workers

         6. Section 19 – Fitness to practise cases: powers to extend interim orders

         7. Section 20 – Direct payments in social care

         8. Section 21 – Accommodation of children

         9. Section 22 – Social care: minor and consequential amendments

   2. Part 2

      Health Care

      1. Section 23 – Overview of Part 2

      2. Section 24 – Direct payments for health care

      3. Section 25 – Direct payments for health care: minor and consequential amendments

      4. Section 26 – Provision of health services by local authorities

   3. Part 3

      General

      1. Section 30 – Short title

5. Record of Proceedings in Senedd Cymru