5 Promoting diversity and quality in provision of services
Care Act 2014 (2014 c 23) | Legislation

5  Promoting diversity and quality in provision of services

(1)     A local authority must promote the efficient and effective operation of a market in services for meeting care and support needs with a view to ensuring that any person in its area wishing to access services in the market—

(a)     has a variety of providers to choose from who (taken together) provide a variety of services;

(b)     has a variety of high quality services to choose from;

(c)     has sufficient information to make an informed decision about how to meet the needs in question.

(2)     In performing that duty, a local authority must have regard to the following matters in particular—

(a)     the need to ensure that the authority has, and makes available, information about the providers of services

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