The Breaks for Carers of Disabled Children (Wales) Regulations 2012

Types of services which must be provided

4.—(1) In performing its duty under paragraph 6(1)(c) of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act, a local authority must provide, so far as it is reasonably practicable, a range of services which is sufficient to assist carers to continue to provide care or to do so more effectively.

(2) The provision that a local authority must provide in accordance with paragraph (1) must include, as appropriate, a range of—

(a)day-time care in the homes of disabled children or elsewhere,

(b)overnight care in the homes of disabled children or elsewhere,

(c)educational or leisure activities for disabled children outside their homes, and

(d)services available to assist carers in the evenings, at weekends and during the school holidays.