15 Preventative services

15  Preventative services

(1)     A local authority must provide or arrange for the provision of a range and level of services which it considers will achieve the purposes in subsection (2) in its area.

(2)     The purposes are—

(a)     contributing towards preventing or delaying the development of people's needs for care and support;

(b)     reducing the needs for care and support of people who have such needs;

(c)     promoting the upbringing of children by their families, where that is consistent with the well-being of children;

(d)     minimising the effect on disabled people of their disabilities;

(e)     contributing towards preventing people from suffering abuse or neglect;

(f)     reducing the need for—

(i)     proceedings for care or supervision orders under the Children Act 1989,

(ii)     criminal proceedings against

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