Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968

[F1 5A Local authority plans for community care services. S

(1) Within such period after the day appointed for the coming into force of this section as the Secretary of State may direct, and in accordance with the provisions of this section, each local authority shall prepare and publish a plan for the provision of community care services in their area.

(2) Each local authority shall from time to time review any plan prepared by them under subsection (1) above, and shall, in the light of any such review, prepare and publish–

(a) any modifications to the plan under review; or

(b) if the case requires, a new plan.

(3) In preparing any plan or carrying out any review under subsection (1) or, as the case may be, subsection (2) above the authority shall consult—

(a) any Health Board providing services under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act M1 1978 in the area of the authority;

F2 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c) such voluntary organisations as appear to the authority to represent the interests of persons who use or are likely to use any community care services within the area of the authority or the interests of private carers who, within that area, provide care to persons for whom, in the exercise of their functions under this Act or any of the enactments mentioned in [F3 5(1B)] of this Act, the local authority have a power or a duty to provide, or to secure the provision of, a service;

(d) such voluntary housing agencies and other bodies as appear to the authority to provide housing or community care services in their area; and

(e) such other persons as the Secretary of State may direct.

(4) In this section–

• “community care services” means services, other than services for children, which a local authority are under a duty or have a power to provide, or to secure the provision of, under Part II of this Act or section 7 (functions of local authorities), 8 (provision of after-care services) or 11 (training and occupation of the mentally handicapped) of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984; and

• “private carer” means a person who is not employed to provide the care in question by any body in the exercise of its functions under any enactment.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 5A, 5B inserted (1.4.1991) by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 52

F2 S. 5A(3)(b) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1)(2), Sch. 13 para. 76(4)(a), Sch. 14; S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)-(d), Sch. 2

F3 Words in s. 5A(3)(c) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 76(4)(b); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c)

Marginal Citations

M1 1978 c. 29 (113:2).