Amendment to requirement about fitness of managers of domiciliary support services in certain circumstances
9. In regulation 35—
(a)in subparagraph (2)(e), at the beginning, insert “subject to paragraph (10) of this regulation”;
(b)in paragraph (9), for the words from “section 1” to the end, substitute “section 87(1) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012(1)”;
(c)after paragraph (9) insert—
“(10) Until 1 April 2020, the requirement under paragraph (2)(e) for a manager to be registered with Social Care Wales does not apply to a manager who is appointed to manage an undertaking—
(a)in respect of which a person is registered, or has applied to register, as the provider of a domiciliary support service, and
(b)in respect of which a person was registered as carrying on a nurses agency under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000(2) immediately before 2 April 2018 but was not also registered as carrying on a domiciliary care agency.”