24Performance rating of social services
(1)In section 79(2) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) (duty of Commission for Social Care Inspection to award a performance rating to a local authority), for the words from “a performance rating” to the end substitute—
“(a)a performance rating to that authority in respect of all the English local authority social services provided by, or pursuant to arrangements made by, that authority—
(i)to or so far as relating to persons under the age of eighteen; or
(ii)under sections 23C to 24D of the Children Act 1989; and
(b)a performance rating to that authority in respect of all other English local authority social services provided by, or pursuant to arrangements made by, that authority.”
(2)In section 81(2) of that Act (duty of the Commission to inform the Secretary of State where it awards the lowest performance rating under section 79), for “section 79” substitute “section 79(2)(a) or (b)”.