The Care and Support (Partnership Arrangements for Population Assessments) (Wales) Regulations 2015

Title, commencement, application and interpretation

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Care and Support (Partnership Arrangements for Population Assessments) (Wales) Regulations 2015.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 6 April 2016 and apply in relation to Wales.

(3) In these Regulations—

“partnership arrangement” (“trefniant partneriaeth”) means the partnership arrangement which is required to be made by regulation 2;

“population assessment” (“asesiad poblogaeth”) means the assessment which is required to be carried out under section 14(1) of the Act;

“specified functions” (“swyddogaethau penodedig”) means the functions specified in regulation 3;

“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014;

“the partnership bodies” (“y cyrff partneriaeth”) are those bodies which are required by regulation 2 to enter into partnership arrangements.

Partnership arrangements

2.  A partnership arrangement for carrying out the specified functions must be made by the Local Health Boards listed in the first column of the table in the Schedule and the corresponding local authority or local authorities listed in the second column of that table.

Specified functions

3.  The functions to be carried out in accordance with the partnership arrangements are the functions of the partnership bodies conferred on them by or under section 14(1) of the Act.

Form of partnership arrangements

4.  The partnership bodies must establish a joint committee to take responsibility for the management of the partnership arrangement.

Operation of partnership arrangements

5.—(1) The partnership bodies for each partnership arrangement must appoint one of the bodies to be the lead co-ordinating body.

(2) The lead co-ordinating body is to be responsible for co-ordinating the carrying out of the population assessments for the local authority areas covered by the partnership arrangement.

Information sharing

6.  The partnership bodies may share information with each other for the purposes of carrying out functions in accordance with the partnership arrangement.

Delegation of functions

7.  The lead co-ordinating body may carry out the functions which have been conferred on each of the local authorities in the partnership arrangement by regulation 6(4) of the Care and Support (Population Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2015(1).

Mark Drakeford

Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers

8 July 2015