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Social care - needs assessment Duty
- Description
- A local authority must where it appears to a local authority that an adult may have needs for care and support, assess—
(a) whether the adult does have needs for care and support, and
(b) if the adult does, what those needs are.
The duty to carry out a needs assessment applies regardless of the authority's view of—
(a) the level of the adult's needs for care and support, or
(b) the level of the adult's financial resources.
A needs assessment must include an assessment of—
(a) the impact of the adult's needs for care and support on the matters
(b) the outcomes that the adult wishes to achieve in day-to-day life, and
(c) whether, and if so to what extent, the provision of care and support could contribute to the achievement of those outcomes.
The assessment must also accord with the provisions of Section 9.
- Modified
- 19 Mar 2024
- Status
- Live
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- requires
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