Legislation

Section 2 – Provision of welfare services

Introduction

This section was  a lynchpin of the community care legislation, imposing an obligation on a local authority to provide various non-residential care services for adults under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 for a person, where the authority decided a service was “necessary in order to meet the needs of that person”. However, those […]

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