2023 No. 1355 (W. 245)
The Local Authority Social Services Annual Reports (Prescribed Form) (Wales) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023
Made
Laid before Senedd Cymru
Coming into force
Title and coming into force1
The title of these Regulations is the Local Authority Social Services Annual Reports (Prescribed Form) (Wales) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 and they come into force on 1 April 2024.
Amendment of the Local Authority Social Services Annual Reports (Prescribed Form) (Wales) Regulations 2017
2
The Local Authority Social Services Annual Reports (Prescribed Form) (Wales) Regulations 20173 are amended in accordance with regulation 3.
3
In the Schedule (requirements as to the form of annual reports), for paragraphs 1 to 4 substitute—
1
The information which is required to be included in an annual report must be set out under the following headings—
Chapter 1: Director’s summary
Chapter 2: Context
Chapter 3: Performance assessment
Chapter 4: Other information
2
The information included in chapter 3 must be set out in four parts under the following headings—
Chapter 3(a): People
Chapter 3(b): Prevention
Chapter 3(c): Partnership and integration
Chapter 3(d): Well-being
3
The information included in each part of chapter 3 must be set out in four sections under the following headings—
Section (i): What do we know about the quality and impact of what we are doing?
Section (ii): How do we know?
Section (iii): What are we doing well and how can we do better?
Section (iv): What progress did we make on the areas for improvement identified in last year’s report? What difference did we make?
4
The information included in chapter 4 must be set out in four parts under the following headings—
Chapter 4(a): Inspections and reviews
Chapter 4(b): Complaints and representations
Chapter 4(c): Referencing other sources of information
Chapter 4(d): Any other information
Transitional provision4
1
The amendments made by regulations 2 and 3 have no effect in so far as they relate to the annual reports prepared by local authorities for the 2023/2024 financial year.
2
In this regulation, the meaning of “financial year” is the period one year beginning on 1 April and ending on 31 March.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)