David Rees AM

Chair, Health & Social Care Committee

Legislation Office

National Assembly for Wales

Cardiff Bay

CF99 1NA

10 July 2015

Dear Chair,

Regulation & Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Bill 

Following the publication of your Stage 1 Report on the Regulation & Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Bill, I wanted to formally express my support for the Report and its recommendations. 

I am pleased that the Committee have taken on board my evidence to the Committee and have responded to the concerns I raised.  There are a number of recommendations that directly address the areas I deemed as ‘missed opportunities’ and also take forward some of the Requirements for Action made in my Care Home Review, A Place to Call Home?, which I drafted with the intention that they would be taken forward by this legislation. 

I have written to the Minister for Health & Social Services and have also sent a briefing to all Assembly Members expressing my full support for the Report’s recommendations and recommending that they are enacted. 

Yours sincerely,

Sarah Rochira

Older People’s Commissioner for Wales