Constitutional Affairs Committee Draft Report

CA594

Title: The Care Homes (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011

Procedure: Negative

These Regulations amend the Care Homes (Wales) Regulations 2002 to make it a requirement that the person who manages a care home possesses a minimum level of qualification to undertake that role and that such a person is registered with the Care Council for Wales. They also make consequential amendments to the Registration of Social Care and Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2002.

Technical Scrutiny

No points are identified for reporting under Standing Order 21.2 in respect of the following instrument.

Merits Scrutiny

The Assembly is invited to pay special attention to these regulations under Standing Order 21.3(ii) as giving rise to an issue of public policy likely to be of interest to the Assembly:

In the light of recent public concerns about the management and operation of care homes providing services for adults, Assembly Members may wish to note that these Regulations introduce new arrangements to make it a legal requirement that all managers of care homes for adults register with the Care Council for Wales in order to undertake that role.

This instrument was laid during the third Assembly and it has not been possible to report on it within the usual 20-day timescale.  Further information about this is set out in the report (laid document reference CR-LD8540) by the former Constitutional Affairs Committee laid on 31 March 2011.

Legal Advisers

Constitutional Affairs Committee

June 2011