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Social care ’easements’
Law Society Gazette reporting that:
One of the Coronavirus Act’s most controversial measures has been ‘switched on’ by eight English local authorities, allowing these councils to ditch social care duties to disabled adults ...
... Councils’ directors of adult social care at Birmingham, Croydon, Hertfordshire, Middlesbrough, Solihull, Staffordshire, Sunderland and Warwickshire have introduced ‘easements’ to the Care Act 2014 ...
More: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/councils-move-to-ditch-adult-social-care-duties/5103972.article
NB: the Coronavirus Act 2020 (and related legislation) has introduced measures that replace the local authority Care Act duties to assess and meet care and support needs, with a power to meet those needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.