
2015 No. 1495 (W. 167)
Social Care, Wales
The Care and Support (Partnership Arrangements for Population Assessments) (Wales) Regulations 2015
Made 8 July 2015
Coming into force 6 April 2016

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 166(1)(3) and (4) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 , make the following Regulations.

A draft of these Regulations was laid before the National Assembly for Wales under section 196(6) of that Act and has been approved by a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales.
Title, commencement, application and interpretation
1 

(1) The title of these Regulations is the Care and Support (Partnership Arrangements for Population Assessments) (Wales) Regulations 2015.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 6 April 2016 and apply in relation to Wales.
(3) In these Regulations—
 “partnership arrangement” (“trefniant partneriaeth”) means the partnership arrangement which is required to be made by regulation 2;
 “population assessment” (“asesiad poblogaeth”) means the assessment which is required to be carried out under section 14(1) of the Act;
 “specified functions” (“swyddogaethau penodedig”) means the functions specified in regulation 3;
 “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014;
 “the partnership bodies” (“y cyrff partneriaeth”) are those bodies which are required by regulation 2 to enter into partnership arrangements.
Partnership arrangements
2 
A partnership arrangement for carrying out the specified functions must be made by the Local Health Boards listed in the first column of the table in the Schedule and the corresponding local authority or local authorities listed in the second column of that table.
Specified functions
3 
The functions to be carried out in accordance with the partnership arrangements are the functions of the partnership bodies conferred on them by or under section 14(1) of the Act.
Form of partnership arrangements
4 
The partnership bodies must establish a joint committee to take responsibility for the management of the partnership arrangement.
Operation of partnership arrangements
5 

(1) The partnership bodies for each partnership arrangement must appoint one of the bodies to be the lead co-ordinating body.
(2) The lead co-ordinating body is to be responsible for co-ordinating the carrying out of the population assessments for the local authority areas covered by the partnership arrangement.
Information sharing
6 
The partnership bodies may share information with each other for the purposes of carrying out functions in accordance with the partnership arrangement.
Delegation of functions
7 
The lead co-ordinating body may carry out the functions which have been conferred on each of the local authorities in the partnership arrangement by regulation 6(4) of the Care and Support (Population Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2015.
Mark Drakeford
Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers
8 July 2015
SCHEDULE
Specified partnership arrangements
Regulation 2

Table
Partnership arrangements
Local Health Board Local Authority
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Monmouthshire County CouncilNewport City CouncilCaerphilly County Borough CouncilTorfaen County Borough CouncilBlaenau Gwent County Borough Council
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board Flintshire County CouncilWrexham County Borough CouncilIsle of Anglesey County CouncilGwynedd County CouncilDenbighshire County CouncilConwy County Borough Council
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Cardiff City and County CouncilVale of Glamorgan Council
Hywel Dda University Health Board Pembrokeshire County CouncilCarmarthenshire County CouncilCeredigion County Council
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board Swansea City and County CouncilBridgend County Borough CouncilNeath Port Talbot County Borough Council
Cwm Taf University Health Board Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough CouncilMerthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
Powys Teaching Health Board Powys County Council