PART 10COMPLAINTS, REPRESENTATIONS AND ADVOCACY SERVICES

CHAPTER 1COMPLAINTS AND REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT SOCIAL SERVICES

I1173Assistance for complainants

1

Regulations may require local authorities to—

a

make arrangements to provide assistance (by way of representation or otherwise) to persons who make, or intend to make, a complaint under regulations made under section 171, and

b

give publicity to the arrangements for the provision of that assistance.

2

The regulations may, for example, make provision about—

a

the persons to whom assistance must be provided;

b

the kind of assistance that must be provided to those persons;

c

the persons by whom that assistance may be provided;

d

the stage or stages in the consideration of a complaint in relation to which that assistance must be provided;

e

the kind of publicity that must be given to the arrangements for the provision of that assistance.