# The Local Authority Social Services Annual Reports (Prescribed Form) (Wales) Regulations 2017 W.S.I. 2017/274 · made 5 March 2017 · revised to 1 April 2024 Section 144A of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 was inserted by section 56 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 and requires local authorities in Wales to prepare and publish an annual report about the exercise of the authority’s social services functions. Made under: Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-social-services-annual-reports-prescribed-form-wales-regulations-2017/pdf/wsi_20170274_mi.pdf ## Introductory text Social Care, Wales Made 5 March 2017 Laid before the National Assembly for Wales 8 March 2017 Coming into force 4 September 2017 The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 144A(4) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, make the following Regulations: ## 1 Title, commencement and application (1) The title of these Regulations is the Local Authority Social Services Annual Reports (Prescribed Form) (Wales) Regulations 2017. (2) These Regulations come into force on 4 September 2017 and apply in relation to Wales. ## 2 Interpretation In these Regulations— “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014; “annual report” (“adroddiad blynyddol”) means the report that a local authority is required to prepare and publish in accordance with section 144A of the Act. ## 3 Form of annual report The Schedule (which sets out the requirements as to the form of annual reports) has effect. ## Signature Rebecca Evans Minister for Social Services and Public Health under authority of the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport, one of the Welsh Ministers 5 March 2017 ## Schedule: Requirements as to the form of annual reports ## 1 The information which is required to be included in an annual report must be set out under the following headings— Chapter 1: Director’s summary Chapter 2: Context Chapter 3: Performance assessment Chapter 4: Other information ## 2 The information included in chapter 3 must be set out in four parts under the following headings— Chapter 3(a): People Chapter 3(b): Prevention Chapter 3(c): Partnership and integration Chapter 3(d): Well-being ## 3 The information included in each part of chapter 3 must be set out in four sections under the following headings— Section (i): What do we know about the quality and impact of what we are doing? Section (ii): How do we know? Section (iii): What are we doing well and how can we do better? Section (iv): What progress did we make on the areas for improvement identified in last year’s report? What difference did we make? ## 4 The information included in chapter 4 must be set out in four parts under the following headings— Chapter 4(a): Inspections and reviews Chapter 4(b): Complaints and representations Chapter 4(c): Referencing other sources of information Chapter 4(d): Any other information ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Regulations) Section 144A of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 was inserted by section 56 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 and requires local authorities in Wales to prepare and publish an annual report about the exercise of the authority’s social services functions. Section 144A(4) requires the annual report to be in such form as may be prescribed by regulations. These Regulations prescribe the form of the annual report. The requirements as to the form of the annual report are contained in the Schedule to the Regulations. The Schedule describes the headings under which the information which is required to be included in the annual report must be set out. The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/274 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-social-services-annual-reports-prescribed-form-wales-regulations-2017 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.