PART 4MEETING NEEDS
Plans
I154Care and support plans and support plans
1
Where a local authority is required to meet the needs of a person under section 35 or 37, it must prepare and maintain a care and support plan in relation to that person.
2
Where a local authority is required to meet the needs of a carer under section 40 or 42, it must prepare and maintain a support plan in relation to that carer.
3
A local authority must keep under review the plans that it maintains under this section.
4
Where a local authority is satisfied that the circumstances of the person to whom a plan relates have changed in a way that affects the plan, the authority must—
a
carry out such assessments as it considers appropriate, and
b
revise the plan.
5
Regulations must make provision about—
a
how plans under this section are to be prepared;
b
what a plan is to contain;
c
the review and revision of plans.
6
Regulations under subsection (5)(c) must specify, in particular—
a
the persons who may request a review of a plan (on their own behalf or on behalf of another person);
b
the circumstances in which a local authority—
i
may refuse to comply with a request for a review of a plan, and
ii
may not refuse to do so.
7
When preparing, reviewing or revising a plan under this section, a local authority must involve—
a
in the case of a care and support plan relating to an adult, the adult and, where feasible, any carer that the adult has;
b
in the case of a care and support plan relating to a child, the child and any person with parental responsibility for the child;
c
in the case of a support plan relating to a carer, the carer and, where feasible, the person for whom the carer provides or intends to provide care.
8
The local authority may—
a
prepare, review or revise a plan under this section at the same time as it or another body is preparing, reviewing or revising another document in the case of the person concerned, and
b
include the other document in the plan.
I255Regulations about care and support plans and support plans
Regulations under section 54(5) may, for example—
a
require plans to be in a specified form;
b
require plans to contain specified things;
c
make provision about further persons whom a local authority must involve in the preparation, review or revision of plans;
d
require plans to be prepared, reviewed or revised by specified persons;
e
confer functions on persons specified in the regulations in connection with the preparation, review or revision of plans;
f
specify persons to whom written copies of a plan must be provided (including, in specified cases, the provision of copies without the consent of the person to whom the plan relates);
g
specify further circumstances in which plans must be reviewed.