Social care

Guidance and services

• Charging for social care
• Health and Social Care Regional Integration Fund
• Regional Partnership Boards (RPBs)
• Regional Partnership Boards: charter for service user, carer, third sector and provider members
• Establishing a national care and support service
• Social services codes of practice
• Social services complaints procedure
• Health and social care climate emergency national programme
• Subscribe to the health and social care climate emergency national programme newsletter
• The law on care and support: summary
• The law on care and support: resources
• Social care guide to controlling acute respiratory infections
• Well-being statement for people who need care and carers
• Evaluating social services support for carers
• Regulation and inspection of social care: summary
• Find an adult care home in Wales
• Recording progress on personal outcomes in a care plan: guidance
• Older people's rights to care and support: guidance for service providers
• Your rights to care and support as an older person
• Food and nutrition guidance for older people in care homes
• Safeguarding guidance
• Safeguarding adults: reporting suspected abuse, neglect or harm
• Modern slavery and labour abuse in social care
• Guidance for providers of special school residential services
• Guidance for adult placement services
• Care home sector: factual review good practice guide
• Housing with Care Fund (HCF): guidance 2022 to 2023
• Social services and well-being legislation (WHC/2015/045)
• Intergenerational practice: bringing generations together
• Hospital to home community of practice
• Support payment for unpaid carers: privacy notice
• Citizen Voice Body information sessions: questions and answers
• Claim for help with health costs if you live in a care home: form HC1(SC)W
• Understanding experiences and outcomes of the Social Services Performance and Improvement Framework
• Measuring social services activity and performance: performance improvement framework 2024 to 2025
• Performance and improvement framework for social services: additional guidance 2024 to 2025
• Loneliness and social isolation fund 2021 to 2024
• Loneliness and social isolation fund: application form 2021 to 2024
• Managing health and social care records: code of practice 2022
• Social services performance measures for local authorities
• Provider self-declaration form
• Adult care home providers: promoting your services
• Care homes: guidance for providers and staff
• Preparing for the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards
• Evaluating social services support: guidance for local authorities
• Health and social care integration and rebalancing capital fund: guidance 2022 to 2025
• Director of social services annual report
• National framework for commissioning care and support (WHC/2024/0234)
• Registering a care home for children

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

• National Office for Care and Support
  Policy and strategy
• Removing profit from the care of children looked after
  Policy and strategy
  Removing profit from the care of children looked after
• Removing profit from the care of children looked after: board discussion August 2024
  Report
  Removing profit from the care of children looked after
• Removing profit from the care of children looked after: general briefing July 2024
  Policy and strategy
  Removing profit from the care of children looked after
• Removing profit from the care of children looked after: board discussion July 2024
  Report
  Removing profit from the care of children looked after
• Social services: strategy
  Policy and strategy
• Strategy for unpaid carers
  Collection
• Charter for unpaid carers
  Policy and strategy
• Social services national outcomes framework: impact assessments
  Collection
• Rebalancing care and support programme: impact assessments
  Collection
• National action plan to prevent the abuse of older people
  Policy and strategy
• Supporting older people
  Collection
• Social care workforce partnership: memorandum of understanding
  Policy and strategy
  Social Care Fair Work Forum
• Social Care Fair Work Forum: annual progress update 2024
  Report
  Social Care Fair Work Forum
• Social services national outcomes framework: annual reports
  Collection
• Towards a National Care and Support Service: initial implementation plan
  Policy and strategy
• The Directions to Local Health Boards and NHS Trusts in Wales on the National Framework for Commissioning Care and Support 2024
  Legislation
• Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: children's rights impact assessments
  Impact assessment
• More than just words: annual report 2022 to 2023
  Report
• More than just words: Welsh language plan in health and social care
  Policy and strategy
• Micro-care services: engagement report
  Report
• Analysis of options for the use of additional social care funding
  Report
  Inter-Ministerial Group on Paying for Social Care
• Sustainable Social Services Third Sector Grant for 2020 to 2023: funded projects
  Report
• Social services: report by the independent commission
  Report
• Use of antipsychotic medication in care homes
  Report
• The Regulated Services (Annual Returns) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
• NHS and social care financial recognition scheme: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Performance and improvement in social services: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Market stability reports: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• The Primary Medical Services (COVID-19 Care Homes) (Directed Enhanced Services) (Wales) Directions 2020
  Legislation
• Loneliness and social isolation (connected communities)
  Policy and strategy
• Loneliness and social isolation (connected communities): impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Paying for social care
  Report
• The pressures and cost of social care: March 2020
  Report
  Inter-Ministerial Group on Paying for Social Care
• Social care market stability reports: summary of responses
  Report
• Regional Partnership Boards' use of pooled budgets for care home accommodation
  Report
• CMA care homes market study: government response
  Public response
• Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (2020 amendments): impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Population needs assessment 2021 to 2022
  Policy and strategy
• National approach to statutory advocacy: Task and Finish Group 2015 to 2021 legacy document
  Report
  Task & Finish Group (T&FG) National Approach to Statutory Advocacy for Children and Young People
• Winter health and social care plans
  Collection
• Public understanding of social care and paying for care: research
  Collection
• Review of neglect of older people in care homes in Gwent (Flynn Report)
  Collection
• Research on the employment of personal assistants in social care
  Report
  Social Care Fair Work Forum
• Measuring the Mountain: response to 2020 recommendations
  Policy and strategy
• Mandatory registration of adult care home workers: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Integrated Care Fund (ICF): annual reports
  Collection
• Welsh Government response to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse
  Report
• Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
  Collection
• Strengthening our community care system
  Policy and strategy
• Ministerial Advisory Group for Unpaid Carers meetings
  Collection
  Ministerial Advisory Group for Unpaid Carers
• Ministerial Advisory Group for Unpaid Carers: annual plan 2018 to 2019
  Policy and strategy
  Ministerial Advisory Group for Unpaid Carers
• National Prison Health and Social Care Oversight Group meetings
  Collection
  Prison Health and Social Care National Oversight Group
• Ministerial Advisory Forum on Ageing meeting minutes
  Collection
  Ministerial Advisory Forum on Ageing
• Register of service providers: integrated impact assessment
  Guidance
• Regulation of special school residential services: impact assessments
  Collection
• Older People’s Commissioner for Wales: equality impact assessment
  Guidance
• Older People’s Commissioner for Wales: Welsh language impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Older People’s Commissioner for Wales: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Removing profit from the care of children looked after: board discussion October 2024
  Report
  Removing profit from the care of children looked after
• Ministerial Advisory Group for Unpaid Carers meeting: 9 September 2024
  Meeting
  Ministerial Advisory Group for Unpaid Carers