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Welsh Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 708 (W. 139)

Social Care, Wales

The Regulated Services (Omissions from the Published Register) (Wales) Regulations 2018

Made

11 June 2018

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

13 June 2018

Coming into force

4 July 2018

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 38(5)(a) of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016(1).

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Regulated Services (Omissions from the Published Register) (Wales) Regulations 2018.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 4 July 2018.

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016;

“care home service” (“gwasanaeth cartref gofal”) has the meaning given by paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act;

“secure accommodation service” (“gwasanaeth llety diogel”) has the meaning given by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Act;

“service provider” (“darparwr gwasanaeth”) has the meaning given by section 3(1)(c) of the Act;

“child” (“plentyn”) means a person who is aged under 18.

Omission of information from the published register of service providers

3.  For the purposes of section 38(5)(a) of the Act the Welsh Ministers may omit from the published register of service providers the information required under section 38(2)(b) of the Act in respect of any entry in the register that relates to a place at which—

(a)a care home service is provided wholly or mainly to children;

(b)a secure accommodation service is provided.

Huw Irranca-Davies

Minister for Children, Older People and Social Care, under authority of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers

11 June 2018

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made under section 38 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (“the Act”) and apply in relation to Wales.

Section 38(1) of the Act provides that the Welsh Ministers must maintain a register of service providers.

Section 38(2) of the Act sets out the information that must be contained in an entry on the register in respect of a service provider.

Section 38(5)(a) of the Act enables the Welsh Ministers to omit prescribed information from the published register in prescribed circumstances.

Regulation 3 sets out the information that the Welsh Ministers may omit from the published register and the circumstances when they may do so.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.

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