PART 6Miscellaneous
Social care
I2I1165Care Quality Commission’s powers in relation to local authority failings
1
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 is amended as follows.
2
In section 48 (special reviews and investigations), in subsection (6) omit “or (3)”.
3
In section 50 (failings by English local authorities)—
a
in subsection (2), in the words before paragraph (a), omit “subject to subsection (3)”;
b
for subsections (3) and (4) substitute—
3A
Nothing in subsection (2) prevents a report published under section 46(1)(c), 46A(1)(c), 46B(1)(c) or 48(4) from specifying respects in which the Commission considers a local authority to be failing and making recommendations to the local authority for addressing the failure.