Issue details

•         Section 144B of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 requires local authorities to prepare and publish a market stability report which includes an assessment of the sufficiency of provision of care and support; any other matter relating to the provision of regulated services as prescribed by regulations; and the effect on the exercise of the local authority’s social services functions of the commissioning by the authority of any services in connection with those functions.

•         In preparing their market stability reports, local authorities are required to take account of the most recent population needs assessment and area plan.

•         Local authorities and the Local Health Board are required to carry out these functions in partnership across the area covered by a regional partnership board (RPB).

•         The Regulations require local authorities to produce market stability reports every five years.

•         This is the first report for the Cardiff and Vale region  it will help inform and shape the next five year area plan, along with the most recently published population needs assessment.