Regulation 6

After regulation 11 insert—

“Responsible persons

11A.

(1)

Each partnership body must appoint a responsible person to facilitate the partnership arrangements and promote co-operation between—

(a)

the partnership body;

(b)

each of the other partnership bodies within the partnership arrangement;

(c)

the regional partnership board.

(2)

A local authority must appoint the person appointed as director of social services under section 144 of the Act as the responsible person for the authority.

(3)

A Local Health Board must appoint the executive member who is appointed as a member of the regional partnership board as the responsible person for the Board.

(4)

A responsible person must—

(a)

encourage co-operation and partnership working within their appointing partnership body;

(b)

take the lead in promoting their appointing partnership body’s contribution to the meeting of the objectives of the regional partnership board;

(c)

report back to the cabinet or, as the case may be, the board of their appointing partnership body on the work of the regional partnership board.

Administrative functions of regional partnership boards

11B.

(1)

A regional partnership board must publish descriptions of the role and responsibilities of the categories of members of the board which are specified in regulation 11.

(2)

A regional partnership board must establish and publish the procedure for recruiting members of the board who represent the interests of persons referred to in regulation 11(1)(g) and (h).

(3)

A regional partnership board must provide support and guidance to support members of the board, in particular those members who represent the interests of persons referred to in regulation 11(1)(g) and (h) and members who represent the interests of organisations referred to in regulation 11(1)(e).

Self-assessment

11C.

(1)

A regional partnership board must perform a self-assessment of its performance in order to evaluate the extent to which it met the objectives specified in regulation 10 (“its objectives”) during the previous 12 months and prepare a report of its conclusions.

(2)

In this regulation and in regulation 12 (reports), a self-assessment performed, and a report prepared under paragraph (1) are collectively referred to as “a self-assessment report”.

(3)

A self-assessment report must also include details of any actions that the board intends to take, and any actions that it has already taken, with a view to increasing the extent to which it will meet its objectives in the year following the year to which the report relates.

(4)

A self-assessment report (other than a regional partnership board’s first self-assessment report) must include the board’s assessment as to the extent to which the conclusions of the board contained in a review performed under paragraph (7) have been affected as a result of any actions it has taken to meet its objectives in the previous 12 months.

(5)

The first self-assessment report must be prepared by 1 April 2025.

(6)

Subsequent self-assessment reports must be prepared at intervals of two years by 1 April.

(7)

A regional partnership board must perform a review of a self-assessment report prepared in accordance with this regulation.

(8)

A review under paragraph (7) must contain an evaluation of the extent to which any actions of the board, including actions taken in accordance with paragraph (3), have increased the extent to which the board met its objectives in the 12 months since the self-assessment report was prepared.

(9)

The first review must be performed by 1 April 2026.

(10)

Subsequent reviews must be prepared at intervals of two years by 1 April.

(11)

A regional partnership board must publish a summary of the results of a self-assessment report or, as the case may be, the review undertaken in accordance with this regulation in a report prepared in accordance with regulation 12.”