{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-and-inspection-of-social-care-wales-act-2016/section-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-and-inspection-of-social-care-wales-act-2016/section-2A.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2016/2",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-and-inspection-of-social-care-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "section/2A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Meaning of “restricted children’s service”",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Part, the following regulated services are a “restricted children’s service”—\n(a) a care home service‍ in so far as the service is a children’s home service;\n(b) a fostering service;\n(c) a secure accommodation service.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a “children’s home service” is a care home service provided at one or more places at which the service is provided wholly or mainly to children.‍\n(3) Schedule 1 makes further provision about the meaning of a restricted children’s service.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2A inserted (1.4.2026) by Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 1), ss. 2(b), 29(2); S.I. 2025/1257, art. 2(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/2/section/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T03:31:40.096382+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}