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Social care - providing child's carer and young carer support Power
- Description
- Where a local authority, having carried out a child's carer's assessment, is satisfied that the carer has needs for support, it may meet such of those needs as it considers appropriate.
In deciding whether or how to exercise this power, a local authority must have regard to Regulations and any services being provided to the carer under section 17 of the Children Act 1989.
- Modified
- 19 Mar 2024
- Status
- Live
- is found in the following lists
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- allows
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