Proposed amendments to social care legislation in Wales
The Welsh Government are consulting on four areas of change to the primary social care legislation.
- eliminating profit from the care of children looked after
- introducing direct payments for continuing health care
- extending mandatory reporting of children and adults at risk
- amendments to regulation of service providers, responsible individuals and the social care workforce. This includes extending the definition of social care worker to include childcare and play workers
You can find out more and respond to the consultation here:
Proposed changes to legislation on social care and continuing health care | GOV.WALES
The Minister's statement announcing the consultation is here:
