181Provision of advocacy services
(1)Regulations may require a local authority to arrange for advocacy services to be made available to people with needs for care and support (whether or not those needs are being met by a local authority); this is subject to section 182.
(2)“Advocacy services” are services which provide assistance (by way of representation or otherwise) to persons for purposes relating to their care and support.
(3)The regulations may specify—
(a)the persons, or description of persons, to whom advocacy services are to be made available;
(b)the circumstances in which advocacy services are to be made available;
(c)the persons, or description of persons, by whom advocacy services may, or may not, be provided.
(4)The regulations must require a local authority to give publicity to its arrangements for making advocacy services available.