Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025

18 Meaning of social care worker: childcare workers

(1) Subsection (2) amends the 2016 Act to add, to the list of persons that the Welsh Ministers can except or include in the definition of “social care worker” for the purposes of the Act, people who provide supervision to children (but may or may not provide care and support as part of their role).

(2) In section 79 of the 2016 Act—

(a) in subsection (3)—

(i) in paragraphs (e) and (f), for “care and support to any person in Wales”, substitute “—

(i) care and support;

(ii) childcare,

to any person in Wales”;

(ii) after paragraph (l) insert— “;

(m) a person employed to provide childcare by a person registered under Part 2 of the Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010 (nawm 1) as a provider of day care for children”;

(b) after subsection (3) insert—

“(3A) In subsection (3), “childcare means care and supervision that is provided for children.”