[F111A Provision of welfare services.E+W
(1)A local housing authority may provide in connection with the provision of housing accommodation by them (whether or not under this Part) such welfare services, that is to say, services for promoting the welfare of the persons for whom the accommodation is so provided, as accord with the needs of those persons.
(2)The authority may make reasonable charges for welfare services provided by virtue of this section.
(3)In this section “welfare services” does not include the repair, maintenance, supervision or management of houses or other property.
(4)The powers conferred by this section shall not be regarded as restricting those conferred by section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972 (powers to incur expenditure for purposes not authorised by any other enactment) and accordingly the reference to any other enactment in subsection (1)(a) of that section shall not include a reference to this section.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 11A inserted (retrospectively to 1.4.1990) by 1993 c. 28, s. 126