The Regulated Services (Service Providers and Responsible Individuals) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 No. 407 (W. 73)

Local authority intermediate care service: exception from scope of care home services

3.  In regulation 2(1) (care home services)—

(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (j), for the full-stop substitute “;”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (j) insert—

“(l) the provision of accommodation, together with nursing or care, to adults in a local authority intermediate care service.

But this exception does not apply unless—

(i) the local authority is solely responsible for providing the intermediate care, and

(ii) the intermediate care is provided for no more than sixteen weeks at a time to any one adult.”;