Regulation 6 Requirement for specialist expertise – deafblind individualsI1
England and Wales
An assessment which relates to an individual who is deafblind must be carried out by a person who has specific training and expertise relating to individuals who are deafblind.
A local authority must facilitate the carrying out of the assessment by providing any person carrying out such an assessment with any relevant information which it may have—
about the individual whose needs are being assessed; and
in the case of—
a carer’s assessment, about the adult needing care;
a child’s carer’s assessment, about the child needing care;
a young carer’s assessment, about the adult needing care.
In this regulation, an individual is “deafblind” if the individual has combined sight and hearing impairment which causes difficulties with communication, access to information and mobility.