The Adult Placement Services (Service Providers and Responsible Individuals) (Wales) Regulations 2019
| Jurisdiction | Wales |
| Citation | SI 2019/163 (W40) |
(1) The title of these Regulations is the Adult Placement Services (Service Providers and Responsible Individuals) (Wales) Regulations 2019.(2) These Regulations come into force on 29 April 2019.(3) In these Regulations—
- “the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016;
- “adult placement carer” (“gofalwr lleoli oedolion”) means a person who has entered into a carer agreement with a service provider;
- “care and support plan” (“cynllun gofal a chymorth”) means a plan under section 54 of the 2014 Act ;
- “DBS certificate” (“tystysgrif GDG”) means a certificate of a type referred to in paragraph 2 or 3 of Schedule 1;
- “employee” (“cyflogai”) has the same meaning as in section 230(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 ;
- “health care professional” (“proffesiynolyn gofal iechyd”) means a person who is registered as a member of any profession to which section 60(2) of the Health Act 1999 applies;
- “individual placement agreement” (“cytundeb lleoli unigolyn”) means an agreement between a service provider, an adult placement carer and an individual for an adult placement carer to provide accommodation and care and support to that individual;
- “personal outcomes” (“canlyniadau personol”) means the outcomes that the individual receiving the care and support wishes to achieve in day to day life;
- “personal plan” (“cynllun personol”) means the plan required to be prepared in accordance with regulation 13(1) ;
- “reasonable adjustments” (“addasiadau rhesymol”) means such reasonable adjustments as would be required under the Equality Act 2010 ;
- “representative” (“cynrychiolydd”) means any person having legal authority, or the consent of the individual receiving the care and support to act on the individual's behalf;
- “service commissioner” (“comisiynydd y gwasanaeth”) means the local authority or NHS body which is responsible for making arrangements with the service provider for care and support to be provided to an individual;
- “service provider” (“darparwr gwasanaeth”) means a person carrying on an adult placement service ;
- “specified area” (“ardal benodedig”) means an area specified in a condition to the service provider's registration as a place in relation to which the service is to be provided;
- “staff” (“staff”) includes—
- (a) persons employed by the service provider to work at the service as an employee or a worker, and
- (b) persons engaged by the service provider under a contract for services,
- “the Disclosure and Barring Service” (“y Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd”) and “DBS” (“GDG”) mean the body formed by section 87(1) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 ;
- “the individual” (“yr unigolyn”) means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the adult who is receiving care and support;
- “the service” (“y gwasanaeth”) means in relation to an adult placement service, the service which is provided in relation to a specified area;
- “the service regulator” (“y rheoleiddiwr gwasanaethau”) means the Welsh Ministers in the exercise of their regulatory functions ;
- “the statement of purpose” (“y datganiad o ddiben”) means the statement of purpose for the place at, from or in relation to which the service is provided ;
- “the workforce regulator” (“rheoleiddiwr y gweithlu”) means SCW ;
- “worker” (“gweithiwr”) has the same meanings as in section 230(3) of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
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