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Session 2013 - 14 Internet Publications Other Bills before Parliament

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