Social care

Guidance and services

• Guidance for providers of care home and domiciliary support services
  Guidance to help providers and responsible individuals meet regulations.
• Code of practice for local authority adoption services
  Guidance to help local authorities follow the law on adoption services.
• Welsh language in health and social care
  How we plan to improve availability of Welsh language services in health and social care.
• Code of practice on charging for social care services
  What local authorities must do to follow the law on charges and financial assessments for care and support services.
• Safeguarding children and young people from sexual exploitation
  Guidance for local authorities on how to prevent child sexual exploitation and protect children from abuse.
• Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: guidance for professionals
  Social workers and foster carers can use these leaflets to help unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
• Guidance for adult placement services
  Guidance to help providers of adult placement services meet regulations.
• Guidance for regulated advocacy services
  Guidance to help providers of regulated advocacy services meet regulations.
• Guidance for regulated adoption services
  Guidance to help providers of regulated adoption services meet regulations.
• Guidance for regulated fostering services
  Guidance to help providers of regulated fostering services meet regulations.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Resilience of health and care services: 2017 to 2018
  Report
  A review of how well health and care services managed over winter 2017 to 2018.
• Understanding the social care experiences of citizens: a citizen’s jury report
  Report
  Findings of a public group who met to discuss what matters in social care.
• Understanding the social care experiences of citizens: final report
  Report
  A review to find out if the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act has helped to improve social care.
• Action plan to tackle child sexual exploitation
  Policy and strategy
  What we are doing to protect children from abuse, neglect and other forms of harm.