Social care

Guidance and services

• Guidance for providers of care home and domiciliary support services
  Guidance to help providers and responsible individuals meet regulations.
• Evaluating social services support for adults
  Documents to help local authorities get feedback on adult care and support services.
• The law on care and support: summary
  A summary of the Social Services and Well Being (Wales) Act 2014 and how it affects health and care services.
• Code of practice for local authority adoption services
  Guidance to help local authorities follow the law on adoption services.
• Evaluating social services support for carers
  Documents to help local authorities get feedback from carers on care and support services.
• The law on care and support: summary for social workers
  How the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act affects social workers.
• Regulation and inspection of social care: summary
  How the law on regulation of social care makes sure that care and support services are as good as they can be.
• Welsh language in health and social care
  How we plan to improve availability of Welsh language services in health and social care.
• Evaluating social services support for parents
  Documents to help local authorities get feedback from parents on care and support services.
• The law on care and support: summary for social care staff
  How the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act affects social care staff.
• 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.
• Measuring social services performance: code of practice
  Guidance for local authorities on how to measure progress on improving care and support services.
• Welsh language in social care: guidance for staff
  Advice to help you provide social care and social services to patients in Welsh.
• Evaluating social services support for children
  Documents to help local authorities get feedback on care and support services for children.
• The law on care and support: summary for occupational therapists
  How the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act affects occupational therapists.
• Performance measurement framework for local authorities: factsheet
  The aim of the framework and how it will help improve care and support services.
• Individual care plans: guidance for patients with chronic conditions
  How a care plan can help improve your health and well-being if you have a long term health condition.
• Sustainable social services third sector grant: application form
  Complete this form to apply for the sustainable social services third sector grant.
• The law on care and support: summary for healthcare workers
  How the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act affects healthcare workers.
• Safeguarding children and young people from sexual exploitation
  Guidance for local authorities on how to prevent child sexual exploitation and protect children from abuse.
• Assessing care and support needs of individuals: code of practice
  What local authorities must do to follow the law on assessing people's care and support needs.
• Young people leaving foster care
  Guidance to help professionals who make arrangements for young people leaving care.
• Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: guidance for professionals
  Social workers and foster carers can use these leaflets to help unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
• Meeting people's care and support needs: code of practice
  What local authorities must do to follow the law on meeting people's care and support needs.
• Code of practice for local authority fostering services
  Guidance to help local authorities follow the law on fostering services.
• Guidance for adult placement services
  Guidance to help providers of adult placement services meet regulations.
• Partnership arrangements for care and support: guidance
  Guidance to help local authorities and their partners follow the law on working together to support people in need of care and support.
• The law on care and support: carers
  Factsheet on carers' rights and the support available to them.
• Recording progress on personal outcomes in a care plan: guidance
  Guidance for local authorities and social workers on how to measure improvements to the lives of carers and the people they care for.
• Guidance for regulated advocacy services
  Guidance to help providers of regulated advocacy services meet regulations.
• Care and support needs: code of practice (miscellaneous and general)
  Guidance for local authorities on the support needs of offenders and issues of ordinary residence.
• The law on care and support: young people
  How the law on social services and well-being helps young people.
• Social services national outcomes framework: factsheet
  Explains the social services national outcomes framework and how it will help people who need care and support and carers.
• Guidance for regulated adoption services
  Guidance to help providers of regulated adoption services meet regulations.
• Social services national outcomes framework: technical guidance
  Guidance on how to measure improvements in social care.
• The law on care and support: older people
  How the law on social services and well-being helps older people.
• Guidance for regulated fostering services
  Guidance to help providers of regulated fostering services meet regulations.
• Sustainable social services third sector grant 2020 to 2023: guidance
  Guidance on what is available, who is eligible and how to apply for the sustainable social services third sector grant.
• The law on care and support: people with disabilities
  How the law on social services and well-being helps people with disabilities.

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.
• Social services national outcomes framework: Welsh language impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  An assessment of how the social services national outcomes framework will promote Welsh language standards.
• 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.
• Social services national outcomes framework: equality impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  How the social services national outcomes framework will affect equality of opportunity.
• 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.
• Social services national outcomes framework: annual report 2017 to 2018
  Report
  The progress we have made in improving care and support services from 2017 to 2018.
• Social services national outcomes framework
  Policy and strategy
  How we will measure progress on improving care and support services.
• Social services national outcomes framework: children's rights impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  How the social services national outcomes framework will affect children's rights.