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.