The Partnership Arrangements (Wales) Regulations 2015

Pooled Funds

Establishment and maintenance of pooled funds

19.—(1) Partnership bodies for each of the partnership arrangements are required to establish and maintain pooled funds in relation to—

(a) the exercise of their care home accommodation functions;

(b) the exercise of their family support functions;

(c) such of their specified functions as they decide they will exercise jointly in consequence of an assessment carried out under section 14 of the Act or any plan prepared under section 14A of the Act(1).

(2) In this regulation—

“care home” (“cartref gofal”) has the same meaning as in the Care Standards Act 2000;

“care home accommodation functions” (“swyddogaethau llety cartref gofal”) means—

(a)

the functions of a local authority under sections 35 and 36 of the Act, where it has been decided to meet the adult’s needs by providing or arranging to provide accommodation in a care home;

(b)

the functions of a Local Health Board under section 3 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 in relation to an adult, in cases where—

(i)

the adult has a primary need for health care and it has been decided to meet the needs of the adult by arranging the provision of accommodation in a care home, or

(ii)

the adult does not have a primary need for health care but the adult’s needs can only be met by the local authority arranging for the provision of accommodation together with nursing care.

(1)

See footnote to regulation 10(a)(ii).