Care Act 2014
Care Act 2014 (2014 c. 23)
- Care Act 2014 (2014 c. 23)
- 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
- Charging 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
- 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
- Provider failure
- 48 Temporary duty on local authority
- 49 Section 48: cross-border cases
- 50 Temporary duty on local authority in Wales
- 51 Temporary duty on Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland
- 52 Sections 48 to 51: supplementary
- Market oversight
- 53 Specifying criteria for application of market oversight regime
- 54 Determining whether criteria apply to care provider
- 55 Assessment of financial sustainability of care provider
- 56 Informing local authorities where failure of care provider likely
- 56A Provision of information to the Secretary of State
- 57 Sections 54 to 56: supplementary
- Transition for children to adult care and support, etc.
- 58 Assessment of a child's needs for care and support
- 59 Child's needs assessment: requirements etc.
- 60 Assessment of a child's carer's needs for support
- 61 Child's carer's assessment: requirements etc.
- 62 Power to meet child's carer's needs for support
- 63 Assessment of a young carer's needs for support
- 64 Young carer's assessment: requirements etc.
- 65 Assessments under sections 58 to 64: further provision
- 66 Continuity of services under other legislation
- Independent advocacy support
- 67 Involvement in assessments, plans etc.
- 68 Safeguarding enquiries and reviews
- Enforcement of debts
- 69 Recovery of charges, interest etc.
- 70 Transfer of assets to avoid charges
- Review of funding provisions
- 71 Five-yearly review by Secretary of State
- Appeals
- 72 Part 1 appeals
- Default by local authority
- 72A Default power of Secretary of State
- 72B Default power of Secretary of State: supplementary
- Miscellaneous
- 73 Human Rights Act 1998: provision of regulated care or support etc a public function
- 74 Discharge of hospital patients with care and support needs
- 75 After-care under the Mental Health Act 1983
- 76 Prisoners and persons in approved premises etc.
- 77 Registers of sight-impaired adults, disabled adults, etc.
- 78 Guidance, etc.
- 79 Delegation of local authority functions
- General
- 80 Part 1: interpretation
- PART 2 Care standards
- Quality of services
- 81 Duty of candour
- 82 Warning notice
- 83 Imposition of licence conditions on NHS foundation trusts
- 84 Trust special administration: appointment of administrator
- 85 Trust special administration: objective, consultation and reports
- Care Quality Commission
- 86 Restriction on applications for variation or removal of conditions
- 87 Rights of appeal
- 88 Unitary board
- Increasing the independence of the Care Quality Commission
- 89 Chief Inspectors
- 90 Independence of the Care Quality Commission
- Performance ratings
- 91 Reviews and performance assessments
- False or misleading information
- 92 Offence
- 93 Penalties
- 94 Offences by bodies
- Regulated activities
- 95 Training for persons working in regulated activity
- PART 3 Health
- CHAPTER 1 The Education and Training Functions of NHS England
- Establishment
- 96 Health Education England
- National functions
- 97 Planning education and training for health care workers etc.
- 98 Ensuring sufficient skilled health care workers for the health service
- 99 Quality improvement in education and training, etc.
- 100 Objectives, priorities and outcomes
- 101 Sections 98 and 100: matters to which NHS England must have regard
- 102 Advice
- ...
- 103 Local Education and Training Boards
- 104 LETBs: appointment etc.
- 105 LETBs: co-operation by providers of health services
- 106 Education and training plans
- 107 Commissioning education and training
- Tariffs
- 108 Tariffs
- CHAPTER 2 Health Research Authority
- Establishment
- 109 The Health Research Authority
- General functions
- 110 The HRA's functions
- Regulatory practice
- 111 Co-ordinating and promoting regulatory practice etc.
- Research ethics committees
- 112 The HRA's policy on research ethics committees
- 113 Approval of research
- 114 Recognition by the HRA
- 115 Establishment by the HRA
- 116 Membership of the United Kingdom Ethics Committee Authority
- Patient information
- 117 Approval for processing confidential patient information
- CHAPTER 3 Chapters 1 and 2: supplementary
- Miscellaneous
- 118 Transfer orders
- General
- 119 Chapters 1 and 2: interpretation and supplementary provision
- CHAPTER 4 Trust special administration
- 120 Powers of administrator etc.
- PART 4 Health and social care
- Integration fund
- 121 Integration of care and support with health services etc: integration fund
- Information
- 122 The Health and Social Care Information Centre: restrictions on dissemination of information
- PART 5 General
- 123 Power to make consequential provision
- 124 Power to make transitional etc. provision
- 125 Regulations and orders
- 126 General interpretation
- 127 Commencement
- 128 Extent and application
- 129 Short title
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Cross-border placements
- Placements from England to Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland
- Placements from Wales to England, Scotland or Northern Ireland
- Placements from Scotland to England, Wales or Northern Ireland
- Placements from Northern Ireland to England, Wales or Scotland
- Dispute resolution
- Financial adjustments
- Provision of NHS accommodation not to affect deemed ordinary residence etc.
- Direct payments
- Particular types of accommodation
- Regulations
- Interpretation
- Consequential provision
- Transitory provision
- SCHEDULE 2 Safeguarding Adults Boards
- Membership, etc.
- Funding and other resources
- Strategic plan
- Annual report
- SCHEDULE 3 Discharge of hospital patients with care and support needs
- Cases where hospital patient is likely to have care and support needs after discharge
- Assessment notice given by responsible NHS body to local authority
- Cases where discharge of the patient is delayed
- Delegation to management of independent hospital
- Adjustments between local authorities
- Meaning of “hospital patient”, “NHS hospital, “NHS body”, etc.
- Further provision about assessment notices, discharge notices, etc.
- 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 2014
- SCHEDULE 5 Health Education England
- PART 1 Constitution
- Membership
- Non-executive members: terms of office
- Non-executive members: suspension from office
- Non-executive members: pay
- Employees: terms of office
- Employees: pay
- Committees and sub-committees
- Procedure
- Seal and evidence
- Status of HEE
- PART 2 Functions
- Exercise of functions
- Help or advice for other public authorities
- Co-operation
- NHS contracts
- Arrangements with devolved authorities
- Failure to exercise functions
- PART 3 Finance and reports
- Funding
- Financial duties: expenditure
- Financial duties: use of generated income
- Financial duties: controls on total resource use
- Financial duties: additional controls on resource use
- Losses and liabilities etc
- Accounts
- Annual accounts
- Interim accounts
- Annual report
- PART 4 Consequential amendments
- Public Records Act 1958
- Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960
- Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967
- House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
- Freedom of Information Act 2000
- Equality Act 2010
- SCHEDULE 6 Local Education and Training Boards
- The area for which an LETB is appointed
- Assessment of whether the appointment criteria are being met in relation to LETBs
- Publication and review of the appointment criteria
- Exercise of functions
- SCHEDULE 7 The Health Research Authority
- PART 1 Constitution
- Membership
- Non-executive members: terms of office
- Non-executive members: suspension from office
- Non-executive members: pay
- Employees: terms of office
- Employees: pay
- Committees and sub-committees
- Procedure
- Seal and evidence
- Status of the HRA
- PART 2 Functions
- Exercise of functions
- Help or advice for other public authorities
- Arrangements with devolved authorities
- Failure to exercise functions
- PART 3 Finance and reports
- Funding
- Fees and indemnities
- Accounts
- Annual report
- PART 4 Consequential amendments
- Public Records Act 1958
- Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960
- Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967
- House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
- Freedom of Information Act 2000
- Equality Act 2010
- SCHEDULE 8 Research ethics committees: amendments
- Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1059)
- Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000/194)
- Health Service (Control of Patient Information) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1438)
- Nursing Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/160)
- Residential Care Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/161)
- Independent Health Care Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/174)
- Approval of Research on Organs No Longer Required for Procurator Fiscal Purposes (Specified Purposes) (Scotland) Order 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/310)
- Human Tissue Act 2004 (Ethical Approval, Exceptions from Licensing and Supply of Information about Transplants) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1260)
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Appropriate Body) (England) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2810)
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Appropriate Body) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/833)
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Disclosure of Information for Research Purposes) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/995)
- Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/734)
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