189 Provider failure: temporary duty on local authority
Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (2014 anaw 4) | Legislation

189  Provider failure: temporary duty on local authority

[(1)     This section applies where a service provider becomes unable to provide a regulated service because of business failure.]

(2)     A local authority must for so long as it considers necessary (and in so far as it is not already required to do so) meet—

(a)     those of an adult's needs for care and support, and

(b)     those of a relevant carer's needs for support,

which were, immediately before the [service provider became unable to provide the regulated service, being met in the authority's area by the service provider] (but this is subject to section 190).

(3)     A local authority is required to meet needs under subsection (2) regardless of—

(a)     whether the relevant person is ordinarily resident in its area;

(b)     whether the authority has carried out a needs assessment or a financial assessment;

(c)     whether the authority would otherwise

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