PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Services (22 June 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will restore as soon as it is safe to do so the Care Act 2004 duties on local authorities to ensure that the care of elderly, vulnerable and/or disabled people is not diminished.

Asked by:
Ms Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour)

Public safety throughout this period is the Government’s top priority and this includes keeping those who need care and support safe. The changes to the Care Act 2014 duties on local authorities will be kept under review and the Secretary of State will suspend them based on expert clinical and social care advice, in accordance with the Coronavirus Act 2020.

Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
2 July 2020