84. In Schedule 15 to the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (local social services authorities) after paragraph 2 insert—
“2A.—(1) Each local social services authority in Wales—
(a)must provide or arrange for the provision of home help, on a scale adequate for the needs of its area, for households where home help is required owing to the presence of a person to whom sub-paragraph (2) applies, and
(b)may provide or arrange for the provision of laundry facilities for households for which home help is being, or can be, provided under paragraph (a).
(2) This sub-paragraph applies to any person who—
(a)is suffering from illness,
(b)is pregnant or has recently given birth,
(c)is aged, or
(d)is handicapped as a result of having suffered from illness or by congenital deformity.”