162 Arrangements to promote co-operation: adults with needs for care and support and carers

Part 9 Co-Operation and Partnership

Co-Operation

162  Arrangements to promote co-operation: adults with needs for care and support and carers

(1)     A local authority must make arrangements to promote co-operation between—

(a)     the local authority,

(b)     each of the authority's relevant partners in the exercise of—

(i)     their functions relating to adults with needs for care and support or to adults who are carers, and

(ii)     their other functions the exercise of which is relevant to the functions referred to in sub-paragraph (i), and

(c)     such other persons or bodies as the authority considers appropriate, being persons or bodies of any nature who or which exercise functions or are engaged in activities in relation to—

(i)     adults within the authority's area with needs for care and support, or

(ii)     adults within the authority's area who are carers.

(2)     A local authority must also make arrangements to promote co-operation between the officers of the authority who exercise its functions.

(3)     The arrangements under subsections

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