The Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2025

Provisions relating to the provision of social care services to children: restrictions on profit

2.—(1) The following provisions of the Act come into force on 1 January 2026—

(a) section 3(1) and (2) (applications for registration in respect of restricted children’s services),

(b) section 4 (registration in respect of a restricted children’s service: transitional arrangements)—

(i) subsection (1);

(ii) subsections (2) and (3), but only in so far as they insert paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 1A into the 2016 Act,

(c) section 7 (providers of restricted children’s services: information contained in annual return),

(d) section 8(1) and (2) (variation or cancellation of registration as a provider of a restricted children’s service), and

(e) section 11 (duty to prepare and publish an annual sufficiency plan) in so far as it inserts subsection (3)(f) of section 75A into the 2014 Act.

(2) The following provisions of the 2025 Act come into force on 1 April 2026—

(a) sections 2 to 10 in so far as they are not already in force, and

(b) section 12 (duty to secure accommodation: reporting), in so far as it inserts section 75D(a) into the 2014 Act.

(3) The following provision of the 2025 Act comes into force on 1 July 2026: section 11 in so far as it inserts subsections (1), (2), (3)(a) and (e) of section 75A, and sections 75B and 75C into the 2014 Act.