New Search
Introduction
PART 1
Care and support
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
8 How to meet 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
14 Power of local authority to charge
15 Cap on care costs
16 Cap on care costs: annual adjustment
17 Assessment of financial resources
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.
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
31 Adults with capacity to request direct payments
32 Adults without capacity to request direct payments
33 Direct payments: further provision
34 Deferred payment agreements and loans
35 Deferred payment agreements and loans: further provision
36 Alternative financial arrangements
37 Notification, assessment, etc.
38 Case where assessments not complete on day of move
39 Where a person’s ordinary residence is
40 Disputes about ordinary residence or continuity of care
41 Financial adjustments between local authorities
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
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
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
57 Sections 54 to 56: supplementary
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
67 Involvement in assessments, plans etc.
68 Safeguarding enquiries and reviews
69 Recovery of charges, interest etc.
70 Transfer of assets to avoid charges
71 Five-yearly review by Secretary of State
72 Part 1 appeals
72A Default power of Secretary of State
72B Default power of Secretary of State: supplementary
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
80 Part 1: interpretation
PART 2
Care standards
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
86 Restriction on applications for variation or removal of conditions
87 Rights of appeal
88 Unitary board
89 Chief Inspectors
90 Independence of the Care Quality Commission
91 Reviews and performance assessments
92 Offence
93 Penalties
94 Offences by bodies
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
121 Integration of care and support with health services : integration fund
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 provision
125 Regulations and orders
126 General interpretation
127 Commencement
128 Extent and application
129 Short title
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1 Cross-border placements
SCHEDULE 2 Safeguarding Adults Boards
SCHEDULE 3 Discharge of hospital patients with care and support needs
SCHEDULE 4 Direct payments: after-care under the Mental Health Act 1983
SCHEDULE 5 Health Education England
SCHEDULE 6 Local Education and Training Boards
SCHEDULE 7 The Health Research Authority
SCHEDULE 8 Research ethics committees: amendments
Changes to legislation:
Care Act 2014, SCHEDULE 2 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 05 April 2026. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
Changes to Legislation
Changes and effects yet to be applied by the editorial team are only applicable when viewing the latest version or prospective version of legislation. They are therefore not accessible when viewing legislation as at a specific point in time. To view the ‘Changes to Legislation’ information for this provision return to the latest version view using the options provided in the ‘What Version’ box above.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 2Safeguarding Adults Boards
Membership, etc.
1
(1)
The members of an SAB are—
(a)
the local authority which established it,
(b)
an integrated care board the whole or part of whose area is in the local authority’s area,
(c)
the chief officer of police for a police area the whole or part of which is in the local authority’s area, and
(d)
such persons, or persons of such description, as may be specified in regulations.
(2)
The membership of an SAB may also include such other persons as the local authority which established it, having consulted the other members listed in sub-paragraph (1), considers appropriate.
(3)
A local authority, having consulted the other members of its SAB, must appoint as the chair a person whom the authority considers to have the required skills and experience.
(4)
Each member of an SAB must appoint a person to represent it on the SAB; and the representative must be a person whom the member considers to have the required skills and experience.
(5)
Where more than one integrated care board or more than one chief officer of police comes within sub-paragraph (1), a person may represent more than one of the integrated care boards or chief officers of police.
(6)
The members of an SAB (other than the local authority which established it) must, in acting as such, have regard to such guidance as the Secretary of State may issue.
(7)
Guidance for the local authority on acting as a member of the SAB is to be included in the guidance issued for the purposes of section 78(1).
(8)
An SAB may regulate its own procedure.
Funding and other resources
2
(1)
A member of an SAB listed in paragraph 1(1) may make payments towards expenditure incurred by, or for purposes connected with, the SAB—
(a)
by making the payments directly, or
(b)
by contributing to a fund out of which the payments may be made.
(2)
A member of an SAB listed in paragraph 1(1) may provide staff, goods, services, accommodation or other resources for purposes connected with the SAB.
Strategic plan
3
(1)
An SAB must publish for each financial year a plan (its “strategic plan”) which sets out—
(a)
its strategy for achieving its objective (see section 43), and
(b)
what each member is to do to implement that strategy.
(2)
In preparing its strategic plan, the SAB must—
(a)
consult the Local Healthwatch organisation for its area, and
(b)
involve the community in its area.
(3)
In this paragraph and paragraph 4, “financial year”, in relation to an SAB, includes the period—
(a)
beginning with the day on which the SAB is established, and
(b)
ending with the following 31 March or, if the period ending with that date is 3 months or less, ending with the 31 March following that date.
Annual report
4
(1)
As soon as is feasible after the end of each financial year, an SAB must publish a report on—
(a)
what it has done during that year to achieve its objective,
(b)
what it has done during that year to implement its strategy,
(c)
what each member has done during that year to implement the strategy,
(d)
the findings of the reviews arranged by it under section 44 (safeguarding adults reviews) which have concluded in that year (whether or not they began in that year),
(e)
the reviews arranged by it under that section which are ongoing at the end of that year (whether or not they began in that year),
(f)
what it has done during that year to implement the findings of reviews arranged by it under that section, and
(g)
where it decides during that year not to implement a finding of a review arranged by it under that section, the reasons for its decision.
(2)
The SAB must send a copy of the report to—
(a)
the chief executive and the leader of the local authority which established the SAB,
(b)
the local policing body the whole or part of whose area is in the local authority’s area,
(c)
the Local Healthwatch organisation for the local authority’s area, and
(d)
the chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board for that area.
(3)
“Local policing body” has the meaning given by section 101 of the Police Act 1996.