Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports
10 October 2022
Procedure: Affirmative
These Regulations:
· Revoke the temporary coronavirus-related amendments made in 2020[1] to requirements on providers of care home services, wholly or mainly for adults, and on domiciliary support services for adults. These amendments aimed to support the provision of emergency social care for adults, where this was required as a result of the spread of coronavirus, and to simplify pre-employment checks required for new residential and domiciliary care workers, in situations where this information was hard to access.
· Amend the description of ‘Category C’ premises[2] to clarify that they include relevant premises and establishments in respect of which a person had been registered under any relevant Act (i.e. any Act, other than the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016, which previously provided regulatory control and oversight of accommodation-based services in Wales).
Parent Act: The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016
Date Made: Not stated
Date Laid: Not stated
Coming into force date: 01 November 2022
Statutory Instruments with Clear Reports
10 October 2022
SL(6)264 – The Homelessness (Priority Need and Intentionality) (Wales) Regulations 2022
Procedure: Affirmative
These Regulations amend the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”) and the Homelessness (Intentionality) (Specified Categories) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (“the 2015 Regulations”).
Regulation 2 amends the 2014 Act to specify a further description of a person as having a priority need for accommodation for the purposes of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of that Act. That Chapter places duties on local housing authorities to help people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness.
Regulation 3 makes a corresponding change to the Homelessness (Intentionality) (Specified Categories) (Wales) Regulations 2015.
The main effect of the Regulations will be that a person who is street homeless, and a person with whom the person who is street homeless may reasonably be expected to reside, will be considered as having priority need for accommodation. The changes made by these Regulations will enable local authorities to continue to adopt homelessness assistance policies which closely follow the emergency homelessness response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Parent Act: The Housing (Wales) Act 2014
Date Made: Not stated
Date Laid: Not stated
Coming into force date: 24 October 2022