The Carers Strategies (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 282 (W.46)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES

SOCIAL CARE, WALES

The Carers Strategies (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Made

3 February 2012

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

7 February 2012

Coming into force

29 February 2012

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1) and (2) and 10(2) of the Carers Strategies (Wales) Measure 2010(1), make the following Regulations.

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is The Carers Strategies (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 29 February 2012.

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Amendment of The Carers Strategies (Wales) Regulations 2011

2.—(1) The Carers Strategies (Wales) Regulations 2011(2) are amended as follows.

(2) In the Schedule, in the right hand column (Awdurdodau Lleol) in the Welsh text, in the entry opposite “Bwrdd Iechyd rifysgol Betsi Cadwaladr” in the left hand column (Bwrdd Iechyd Lleol), after “Sir y Fflint” insert “, Gwynedd”.

Revocation

3.  Regulation 9(7) of The Carers Strategies (Wales) Regulations 2011 is revoked.

Gwenda Thomas

Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services under authority of the Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers

3 February 2012

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made under the Carers Strategies (Wales) Measure 2010.

Regulation 2 of these Regulations makes an amendment to correct an editing error in The Carers Strategies (Wales) Regulations 2011 (“2011 Regulations”).

The 2011 Regulations apply to local health boards and local authorities and in part to the Velindre NHS Trust and to the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust. These are referred to as “designated authorities”. The 2011 Regulations require each local health board in Wales and the local authorities which fall within their area to work together in preparing and publishing a strategy setting out how they will work together to assist and include carers in the arrangements made for those they care for.

Regulation 9(7) of the 2011 Regulations requires designated authorities to publish their strategies in both English and Welsh unless it is not reasonably practicable to do so.

Regulation 3 of these Regulations revokes regulation 9(7) of the 2011 Regulations to avoid any possible implication that the English and Welsh versions of the strategies are treated differently.

The Welsh Ministers' Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As they only make minor amendments to the existing Regulations it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.

(1)

2010 nawm 5.

(2)

S.I. 2011/2939 (W.315).