The Children and Young People’s Plan (Wales) Regulations 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations provide for children’s services authorities in Wales to each prepare, consult upon, publish and review a children and young people’s plan. Such a plan must set out the authority’s strategy for discharging their functions in relation to children and young persons. The content of the plan is not prescribed by the Regulations but will be determined by the authority having regard to guidance issued by the Welsh Ministers.

The Children and Young People’s Plan will replace the Single Education Plan which local education authorities were required to prepare and publish under the Single Education Plan (Wales) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/877). These Regulations do not revoke the Single Education Plan (Wales) Regulations 2006 as there is no ongoing duty to publish a Single Education Plan after the publication of such a plan on 1 September 2006 for the period ending on 31 August 2008.

Regulations 4 and 5 provide for the plans to be prepared and published on a three yearly basis, the first plan to be effective from 1 August 2008 and published by 30 September 2008.

Regulation 6 provides for the way in which the plan shall be published; regulation 7 provides for consultation on the draft plan; and regulation 8 provides for the authority to review the plan annually with provision made for further consultation.