National Assembly for Wales

Assembly powers tracking notes

Field 15: Social welfare

(P) This indicates the Matter (or group of Matters) has been proposed but is not yet in force.

Matter 15.1 source: The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Social Welfare) Order 2008
Matters 15.2 – 15.8 (P) source: The National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Social Welfare and Other Fields) Order 2008

See also: Schedule 5 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (as amended)

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Matter 15.1


Matter 15.1

Charges levied by local authorities for social care services provided or secured by them and payments in respect of individuals with needs relating to their well-being so that they, or persons looking after them, may secure social care services to meet those needs.

Excepted matters relating to Matter 15.1

This Matter does not include any of the following -

(a) child support;

(b) tax credits;

(c) child benefit and guardian’s allowance;

(d) social security;

(e) independent living funds;

(f) motability.

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Matters 15.2 - 15.8 (P)


Matter 15.2

Functions of public authorities relating to -

(a) safeguarding children from harm and neglect;

(b) safeguarding and promoting the well-being of vulnerable children;

(c) reducing inequalities in well-being between children or young persons.

This matter applies to the functions of public authorities whose principal functions relate to any one or more of the fields in this Part.

Matter 15.3

Adoption services and special guardianship support services.

Matter 15.4

Fostering.

Matter 15.5

Social care services for any of the following -

(a) children;

(b) persons who care for, or who are about to care for, children;

(c) young persons;

(d) persons formerly looked after -

(i) who have attained the age of 25, and

(ii) who, immediately before attaining that age, have been pursuing, or intending to pursue, education or training.

Matter 15.6

Co-operation and arrangements to safeguard and promote the well-being of children or young persons.

This matter applies to -

(a) public authorities whose principal functions relate to any one or more of the fields in this part;

(b) police authorities and chief officers of police for police areas in Wales;

(c) the British Transport Police Authority;

(d) local probation boards for areas in Wales;

(e) the Secretary of State, in relation to the Secretary of State’s functions under sections 2 and 3 of the Offender Management Act 2007, or any provider of probation services under arrangements made under section 3(2) of that Act;

(f) youth offending teams for areas in Wales;

(g) the governors of prisons, young offender institutions or secure training centres in Wales (or, in the case of contracted out prisons, young offender institutions or secure training centres or contracted out parts of such institutions, their directors);

(h) persons other than public authorities who are engaged in activities relating to the well-being of children or young persons.

Matter 15.7

Planning by local authorities for the discharge of their functions relating to the well-being of children or young persons.

Matter 15.8

Continuing, dissolving or creating an office or body concerned with safeguarding and promoting the well-being of children or young persons; the functions of such an office or body, including in particular -

(a) reviewing the effect on children or young persons of the exercise by any person of functions related to their well-being;

(b) reviewing and monitoring -

(i) advocacy services;

(ii) arrangements for dealing with complaints and representations made by, or on behalf of, children or young persons in respect of persons with functions related to their well-being or persons providing them with social care services;

(c) examining cases of particular children or young persons;

(d) considering, and making representations about, any matter affecting the well-being of children or young persons.

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Excepted matters relating to Matters 15.2 - 15.8

These Matters do not include provision about any of the following -

Child support (Matters 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.8)

Child trust funds, apart from payments into such funds by (a) the council of a county or county borough council in Wales, or (b) the Welsh Ministers (Matters 15.2, 15.4, 15.5)

Tax credits (Matters 15.1, 15.2, 15.4, 15.5)

Child benefit and guardian’s allowance (Matter 15.1, 15.2, 15.4, 15.5)

Social security (Matters 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8)

Independent living funds (Matters 15.1, 15.2, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8)

Motability (Matters 15.1, 15.2, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8)

Vaccine Damage Payments (Matters 15.2, 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8)

Intercountry adoption, apart from adoption agencies and their functions, and functions of the Central Authority” under the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption (Matters 15.2, 15.3)

The Children’s Commissioner established under the Children Act 2004 (Matters 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.8)

Family law and proceedings apart from (a) welfare advice to courts, representation and provision of information, advice and other support to children ordinarily resident in Wales and their families, and (b) Welsh family proceedings officers (Matters 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5)

Welfare foods (Matters 15.2, 15.5, 15.6, 15.8)

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