Section 102: Social services functions
247.Section 102(1)removes the statutory requirement for a local authority to discharge its social services functions through a social services committee (sections 2 to 5 of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970) where the authority adopts one of the forms of executive in or under Part II of this Act. Subsection (2) removes the requirement that an authority’s director of social services cannot discharge non-social services functions without the prior approval of the Secretary of State (section 6(5) of the 1970 Act). Subsection (3) inserts a definition of social services functions and replicates the order-making power in section 2(2) of the 1970 Act.
