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Care Bill [HL]


 

Care Bill [HL]

 

[AS AMENDED ON REPORT]

 
 

Contents

Part 1

Care and support

General responsibilities of local authorities

1   

Promoting individual well-being

2   

Preventing needs for care and support

3   

Promoting integration of care and support with health services etc.

4   

Providing information and advice

5   

Promoting diversity and quality in provision of services

6   

Co-operating generally

7   

Co-operating in specific cases

Meeting needs for care etc.

8   

How to meet needs

Assessing needs

9   

Assessment of an adult’s needs for care and support

10   

Assessment of a carer’s needs for support

11   

Refusal of assessment

12   

Assessments under sections 9 and 10: further provision

13   

The eligibility criteria

Imposing charges and assessing financial resources

14   

Power of local authority to charge

15   

Cap on care costs

16   

Cap on care costs: annual adjustment

17   

Assessment of financial resources

Duties and powers to meet needs

18   

Duty to meet needs for care and support

19   

Power to meet needs for care and support

20   

Duty and power to meet a carer’s needs for support

 

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21   

Exception for persons subject to immigration control

22   

Exception for provision of health services

23   

Exception for provision of housing etc.

Next steps after assessments

24   

The steps for the local authority to take

25   

Care and support plan, support plan

26   

Personal budget

27   

Review of care and support plan or of support plan

28   

Independent personal budget

29   

Care account

30   

Cases where adult expresses preference for particular accommodation

Direct payments

31   

Adults with capacity to request direct payments

32   

Adults without capacity to request direct payments

33   

Direct payments: further provision

Deferred payment agreements, etc.

34   

Deferred payment agreements and loans

35   

Deferred payment agreements and loans: further provision

36   

Alternative financial arrangements

Continuity of care and support when adult moves

37   

Notification, assessment, etc.

38   

Case where assessments not complete on day of move

Establishing where a person lives, etc.

39   

Where a person’s ordinary residence is

40   

Disputes about ordinary residence or continuity of care

41   

Financial adjustments between local authorities

Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect

42   

Enquiry by local authority

43   

Safeguarding Adults Boards

44   

Safeguarding adults reviews

45   

Supply of information

46   

Abolition of local authority’s power to remove persons in need of care

47   

Protecting property of adults being cared for away from home

Public functions under the Human Rights Act 1998

48   

Provision of “care and support services”

Provider failure

49   

Temporary duty on local authority

50   

Section 49: cross-border cases

 
 

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51   

Temporary duty on local authority in Wales

52   

Temporary duty on Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland

53   

Sections 49 to 52: supplementary

Market oversight

54   

Specifying criteria for application of market oversight regime

55   

Determining whether criteria apply to care provider

56   

Assessment of financial sustainability of care provider

57   

Informing local authorities where failure of care provider likely

58   

Sections 55 to 57: supplementary

Transition for children to adult care and support, etc.

59   

Assessment of a child’s needs for care and support

60   

Child’s needs assessment: requirements etc.

61   

Assessment of a child’s carer’s needs for support

62   

Child’s carer’s assessment: requirements etc.

63   

Power to meet child’s carer’s needs for support

64   

Assessment of a young carer’s needs for support

65   

Young carer’s assessment: requirements etc.

66   

Assessments under sections 59 to 65: further provision

67   

Continuity of services under other legislation

Independent advocacy support

68   

Involvement in assessments, plans etc.

69   

Safeguarding enquiries and reviews

Enforcement of debts

70   

Recovery of charges, interest etc.

71   

Transfer of assets to avoid charges

Review of funding provisions

72   

Five-yearly review by Secretary of State

Miscellaneous

73   

Discharge of hospital patients with care and support needs

74   

After-care under the Mental Health Act 1983

75   

Prisoners and persons in approved premises etc.

76   

Registers of sight-impaired adults, disabled adults, etc.

77   

Guidance, etc.

78   

Delegation of local authority functions

General

79   

Part 1: interpretation

 
 

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Part 2

Care standards

Quality of services

80   

Duty of candour

81   

Warning notice

82   

Imposition of licence conditions on NHS foundation trusts

83   

Trust special administration: appointment of administrator

84   

Trust special administration: objective, consultation and reports

Care Quality Commission

85   

Restriction on applications for variation or removal of conditions

86   

Unitary board

Increasing the independence of the Care Quality Commission

87   

Chief Inspectors

88   

Independence of the Care Quality Commission

Performance ratings

89   

Reviews and performance assessments

False or misleading information

90   

Offence

91   

Penalties

92   

Offences by bodies

Regulated activities

93   

Training for persons working in regulated activity

Part 3

Health

Chapter 1

Health Education England

Establishment

94   

Health Education England

National functions

95   

Planning education and training for health care workers etc.

96   

Ensuring sufficient skilled health care workers for the health service

97   

Quality improvement in education and training, etc.

98   

Objectives, priorities and outcomes

 
 

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99   

Sections 96 and 98: matters to which HEE must have regard

100   

Advice

Local functions

101   

Local Education and Training Boards

102   

LETBs: appointment etc.

103   

LETBs: co-operation by providers of health services

104   

Education and training plans

105   

Commissioning education and training

Tariffs

106   

Tariffs

Chapter 2

Health Research Authority

Establishment

107   

The Health Research Authority

General functions

108   

The HRA’s functions

Regulatory practice

109   

Co-ordinating and promoting regulatory practice etc.

Research ethics committees

110   

The HRA’s policy on research ethics committees

111   

Approval of research

112   

Recognition by the HRA

113   

Establishment by the HRA

114   

Membership of the United Kingdom Ethics Committee Authority

Patient information

115   

Approval for processing confidential patient information

Chapter 3

Chapters 1 and 2: supplementary

Miscellaneous

116   

Transfer orders

General

117   

Chapters 1 and 2: interpretation and supplementary provision

 
 

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Chapter 4

Trust special administration

118   

Powers of administrator etc.

Part 4

General

119   

Power to make consequential provision

120   

Power to make transitional etc. provision

121   

Regulations and orders

122   

General interpretation

123   

Commencement

124   

Extent and application

125   

Short title

Schedule 1   —   

Cross-border placements

Schedule 2   —   

Safeguarding Adults Boards

Schedule 3   —   

Discharge of hospital patients with care and support needs

Schedule 4   —   

Direct payments: after-care under the Mental Health Act 1983

Part 1   —   

After-care under the Mental Health Act 1983: direct payments

Part 2   —   

Provision to be inserted in Social Services and Well-Being

(Wales) Act 2013

Schedule 5   —   

Health Education England

Part 1   —   

Constitution

Part 2   —   

Functions

Part 3   —   

Finance and reports

Part 4   —   

Consequential amendments

Schedule 6   —   

Local Education and Training Boards

Schedule 7   —   

The Health Research Authority

Part 1   —   

Constitution

Part 2   —   

Functions

Part 3   —   

Finance and reports

Part 4   —   

Consequential amendments

Schedule 8   —   

Research ethics committees: amendments

 
 

 
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