The Care and Support (Population Assessments) (Wales) Regulations 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 14(1) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (“the Act”) requires local authorities and Local Health Boards (referred to in the Regulations as “responsible bodies”) to jointly assess the matters specified in section 14(1)(a) to (f) of the Act. These matters include the extent to which there are people in the local authority’s area who need care and support and the extent to which there are carers in the area who need support. These Regulations make provision for the carrying out of these assessments (referred to in the regulations as “population assessments”).

Regulation 2 requires the responsible bodies to have regard to the statement of well-being outcomes (issued under section 8 of the Act) when carrying out population assessments

Regulations 3 and 4 make provision for the persons and bodies with which the responsible bodies must engage when carrying out population assessments.

Regulation 5 requires the responsible bodies to jointly produce a report of the outcome of the population assessment (referred to in the regulations as a “population assessment report”).

Regulation 6 provides for the publication of population assessment reports and also requires population assessment reports to be submitted to the Welsh Ministers.

Regulation 7 provides for the review of population assessment reports.