The Assembly’s Health and Social Care Committee has today (July 18) published its report on the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) bill.
Its recommendations include that:
1. Statutory principles should be included on the face of the Bill
2. The Deputy Minister gives consideration to how the social definition of disability could be embedded in practice
3. The committee agrees that the current definition of ‘adult at risk‘ is too narrow
It also calls for greater clarity on how ‘Well-being’ (and the duties and responsibilities resulting from its implementation) will be applied in practice and by whom.
The report added: “We recommend that any definition of well-being should be accompanied by a Code of Practice setting out how the individual components listed in the definition of ̳well-being‘ interact with each other and with other duties in the Bill.”