Legislation – Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025
PART 1
SOCIAL CARE
CHAPTER 1 PROVISION OF SOCIAL CARE SERVICES TO CHILDREN: RESTRICTIONS ON PROFIT
Regulation of social care services provided to children
2 Restricted children’s services
3 Applications for registration in respect of restricted children’s services
4 Registration in respect of a restricted children’s service: transitional arrangements
5 Grant or refusal of registration in respect of a restricted children’s service
6 Fit and proper person: relevant considerations
7 Providers of restricted children’s services: information contained in annual return
8 Variation or cancellation of registration as a provider of a restricted children’s service
9 Restricted children’s services: information contained in the register of service providers
Local authority functions in respect of accommodation for looked after children
10 Local authority duty to secure sufficient accommodation
11 Duty to prepare and publish an annual sufficiency plan
12 Duty to secure accommodation: reporting
13 Ways in which looked after children are to be accommodated
Regulation of social care services: registration etc. of social care services providers
14 Duty to submit and publish annual return
15 Application for cancellation of service provider’s registration: information to be provided
Regulation of social care services: information, inspections and investigations
17 Information, inspection and investigations
Social care workers: registration and fitness to practise
18 Meaning of social care worker: childcare workers
19 Fitness to practise cases: powers to extend interim orders
Local authority social services functions
20 Direct payments in social care
Minor and consequential amendments
22 Social care: minor and consequential amendments
PART 2
HEALTH CARE
24 Direct payments for health care
25 Direct payments for health care: minor and consequential amendments
26 Provision of health services by local authorities
PART 3
GENERAL
28 Consequential and transitional provision etc.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 SOCIAL CARE: MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
SCHEDULE 2 DIRECT PAYMENTS FOR HEALTH CARE: MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
PART 3GENERAL
30Short title
The short title of this Act is the Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025.