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.