Care act 2014

Section 1: Promoting Well-being

Establishes the paramount legal duty to promote an individual's personal well-being, physical and mental health, and safety.

Section 2: Preventing Needs

Requires local authorities to provide services to prevent, reduce, or delay the need for care and support.

Sections 4–5: Information, Advice & Quality

Mandates the provision of comprehensive information/advice and requires authorities to promote a diverse, high-quality local care market.

Sections 9–10: Needs Assessments

Gives adults, including carers, the right to a care and support needs assessment, regardless of their finances or whether the council thinks they will be eligible.

Section 13: Eligibility Criteria

Establishes the national minimum threshold of care and support needs that councils must meet.

Section 14 & 17: Financial Assessments

Grants councils the power to charge for care and outlines the rules for assessing an individual's financial resources.

Section 18: Duty to Meet Needs

Creates the mandatory legal obligation for local authorities to meet eligible care and support needs.

Section 20: Duty to Support Carers

Imposes a duty on councils to meet eligible support needs for carers.

Section 42: Enquiries

Mandates the local authority to make inquiries if an adult is experiencing, or at risk of, abuse or neglect.

Section 43: Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs)

Requires every local area to establish a SAB to coordinate and ensure the effectiveness of local safeguarding.

Sections 48–57: Provider Failure

Sets out the local authority’s responsibility to ensure continuity of care if a registered care provider goes out of business.

Section 58–66: Transition to Adult Care

Details the assessment processes for children, young carers, and parent carers to help them prepare for adult care and support.

Section 67: Independent Advocacy

Requires the local authority to arrange independent advocacy for people who have substantial difficulty being involved in their assessments or care planning.