The Disabled People’s Right to Control (Pilot Scheme) (England) Regulations 2010

Qualifying services

4.  The right to control services which are qualifying services for the purposes of these Regulations are specified in the first column of the following table and the authority which is the relevant authority providing or arranging the provision of each of those services is specified in the second column—

Qualifying service	Relevant authority providing or arranging the provision of the service
(1) Assistance provided under the programmes known as “Access to Work” and “Work Choice Specialist Disability Employment Programme” in pursuance of arrangements made by the Secretary of State under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973(1).	The Secretary of State.
(2) Non-statutory assistance provided by a principal local authority for the purpose of enabling people aged 18 or over to overcome barriers to participation in society associated with their disability where— (a) the assistance is given for the purpose of developing and sustaining people’s capacity to live more independently in their accommodation, (b) the assistance does not include the grant of a tenancy or the provision of accommodation, (c) the assistance is not a community care service, and (d) when the assistance is first provided it appears to the principal local authority that the need for the assistance is likely to last for more than 2 years.	A principal local authority.

(1)

1973 c. 50. Section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 was substituted by the Employment Act 1988 (c.19), section 25(1); subsections (4) and (6) were repealed by the Employment Act 1989 (c.38), section 29(4) and Schedule 7, Part 1. There are other amendments not relevant to these Regulations.