Section 6: Assessments: persons with parental responsibility for disabled children
29.Section 6(1) provides that a person with parental responsibility for a disabled child has the right to an assessment from the local authority of his ability to provide (and to continue to provide) care for the child. The local authority must take that assessment into account when deciding what services, if any, to provide under section 17 of the Children Act 1989.
30.The effect of subsection (2) of this section is that in carrying out an assessment under subsection (1) (of this section) the local authority can take into account, so far as it considers it to be material, any assessment the person may have had under section 1(2) of the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995.
