Commentary on Sections Part 1 .Social Care Chapter 2 .Miscellaneous Amendments in Relation to Social Care Services, Social Care Workers and Local Authority Social Care Functions Section 14 – Duty to submit and publish annual return
72.Section 14 amends section 10 of the 2016 Act which requires a service provider to submit an annual return to the Welsh Ministers who must then publish that return. Section 14 amends section 10 so that the provider (and not the Welsh Ministers) is required to publish its own annual return on its website, and to make a copy of that return available upon request. The amendments also provide that a service provider must publish its return within a time limit prescribed by the Welsh Ministers and that failure to do so is a summary offence punishable by a fine (see section 14(3) which amends section 48 of the 2016 Act).