WQ100443 (e) Tabled on 09/09/2026

Will the Cabinet Minister provide the number of privately operated care homes in Wales, and the number of adults and children with additional learning needs placed in those settings by local authorities, broken down by local authority area?

Answered by Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health | Answered on 21/09/2026

 The number of privately run care homes in Wales by local authority is as follows:

Adult Care Homes

Children’s Care Homes

With Nursing

Without Nursing

 

245

707

345

The Welsh Government does not collect data on the number of adults and children with additional learning needs placed in those settings by local authorities, broken down by local authority area.  This information would be held at local authority level. 

However, from the total figure of privately run care homes, the numbers with provision for people with a learning disability are:

Adults With Nursing

97

Adults Without Nursing

414

Children’s Home

152

In addition, from the total figure of privately run care homes, the numbers with provision for people with mental health are:

Adults With Nursing

133

Adults Without Nursing

394

Children’s Home

149