Closes 20 Jan 2025
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We invite consultees to tell us about their experiences, both positive and negative, of the current process of assessing the social care needs of disabled children.
We provisionally propose a requirement that assessments are proportionate and appropriate to the circumstances of the child and their family.
Do consultees agree?
We provisionally propose that assessors should be required to have appropriate expertise and training.
We invite consultees’ views on whether assessors should be required to have expertise in specific conditions.
We provisionally propose that local authorities should be required to provide disabled children and their families with a copy of their assessment.
We provisionally propose that guidance should emphasise that assessors need to consider whether any other relevant statutory assessment duty is engaged when assessing the social care needs of a disabled child.
We invite consultees’ views on whether it is necessary and appropriate to give local authorities the power to delegate the assessment of the social care needs of disabled children to trusted third parties, retaining ultimate responsibility for the standard of the assessment.
