Just to consolidate what I’m saying to Norfolk County Council, these are the basic requirements. These requirements were operative from 1st April 2008.
The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, Section 228 (Transitional arrangements) says“
”(1) When a local authority becomes subject to the duty in section 221(1), it also becomes subject to the following duty.
(2) That duty (“the temporary duty”) is to ensure until the relevant time that there are means by which the activities specified in section 221(2) can be carried on in the local authority’s area.“
Section 221(2) referred to above says:
”(2) The activities for a local authority’s area are—
(a) promoting, and supporting, the involvement of people in the commissioning, provision and scrutiny of local care services;
(b) enabling people to monitor for the purposes of their consideration of matters mentioned in subsection (3), and to review for those purposes, the commissioning and provision of local care services;
(c) obtaining the views of people about their needs for, and their experiences of, local care services; and
(d) making—
(i) views such as are mentioned in paragraph (c) known, and
(ii) reports and recommendations about how local care services could or ought to be improved,
to persons responsible for commissioning, providing, managing or scrutinising local care services.“
The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, Section 228 (Transitional arrangements) says“
”(1) When a local authority becomes subject to the duty in section 221(1), it also becomes subject to the following duty.
(2) That duty (“the temporary duty”) is to ensure until the relevant time that there are means by which the activities specified in section 221(2) can be carried on in the local authority’s area.“
Section 221(2) referred to above says:
”(2) The activities for a local authority’s area are—
(a) promoting, and supporting, the involvement of people in the commissioning, provision and scrutiny of local care services;
(b) enabling people to monitor for the purposes of their consideration of matters mentioned in subsection (3), and to review for those purposes, the commissioning and provision of local care services;
(c) obtaining the views of people about their needs for, and their experiences of, local care services; and
(d) making—
(i) views such as are mentioned in paragraph (c) known, and
(ii) reports and recommendations about how local care services could or ought to be improved,
to persons responsible for commissioning, providing, managing or scrutinising local care services.“
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