(1)If a person with parental responsibility for a disabled child—
(a)provides or intends to provide a substantial amount of care on a regular basis for the child; and
(b)asks a local authority to carry out an assessment of his ability to provide and to continue to provide care for the child,
the local authority must carry out such an assessment if it is satisfied that the child and his family are persons for whom it may provide or arrange for the provision of services under section 17 of the M1Children Act 1989 (“the 1989 Act”).
(2)For the purposes of such an assessment, the local authority may take into account, so far as it considers it to be material, an assessment under section 1(2) of the M2Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995.
[F1(2A)An assessment under subsection (1) must include consideration of whether the person with parental responsibility for the child—
(a)works or wishes to work,
(b)is undertaking, or wishes to undertake, education, training or any leisure activity.]
(3)The Secretary of State (or, in relation to Wales, the National Assembly for Wales) may give directions as to the manner in which an assessment under subsection (1) is to be carried out or the form it is to take.
(4)Subject to any such directions, it is to be carried out in such manner, and is to take such form, as the local authority considers appropriate.
(5)The local authority must take the assessment into account when deciding what, if any, services to provide under section 17 of the 1989 Act.
(6)Terms used in this section have the same meaning as in Part III of the 1989 Act.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 6(2A) inserted (1.4.2005 for E., 18.4.2005 for W.) by Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004 (c. 15), ss. 2(3), 6(2); S.I. 2005/876, art. 2; S.I. 2005/1153, art. 2
Commencement Information
I1S. 6 wholly in force at 1.7.2001; s. 6 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 12(2); s. 6 in force for E. at 1.4.2001 by S.I. 2001/510, art. 2, Sch.; s. 6 in force for W. at 1.7.2001 by S.I. 2001/2196, art. 2, Sch.
Marginal Citations