PART 3ASSESSING THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS

Supplementary

30Regulations about assessment

1

Regulations must make provision about carrying out needs assessments.

2

Regulations under this section must make provision for the review of needs assessments, and may, for example, specify—

a

the persons who may request a review of an assessment (on their own behalf or on behalf of another person);

b

the circumstances in which a local authority—

i

may refuse to comply with a request for a review of an assessment, and

ii

may not refuse to do so.

3

Regulations under this section may also, for example, provide for—

a

further persons whom a local authority must involve in carrying out an assessment under section 19, 21 or 24;

b

the way in which an assessment is to be carried out, by whom and when;

c

the recording of the results of an assessment;

d

the considerations to which a local authority is to have regard in carrying out an assessment;

e

powers to provide information for the purposes of assessment.