12 Assessments under sections 9 and 10: further provision
Care Act 2014 (2014 c 23) | Legislation

12  Assessments under sections 9 and 10: further provision

(1)     Regulations must make further provision about carrying out a needs or carer's assessment; the regulations may, in particular—

(a)     require the local authority, in carrying out the assessment, to have regard to the needs of the family of the adult to whom the assessment relates;

(b)     specify other matters to which the local authority must have regard in carrying out the assessment (including, in particular, the matters to which it must have regard in seeking to ensure that the assessment is carried out in an appropriate and proportionate manner);

(c)     specify steps that the local authority must take for the purpose of ensuring that the assessment is carried out in an appropriate and proportionate manner;

(d)     specify circumstances in which the assessment may or must be carried out by a person (whether or not an officer of the authority) who has expertise in a specified matter or is of such other description as is specified, jointly with or on behalf of the local authority;

(e)     specify circumstances in which the adult to whom the assessment relates may carry out

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