{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-care-and-health-scotland-act-2002/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-care-and-health-scotland-act-2002/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2002/5",
  "legislation_title": "Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-care-and-health-scotland-act-2002",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Amendment of 1995 Act: matters to be taken into account in assessment of needs of child affected by disability",
  "text": "In section 23 of the 1995 Act (assessment by local authority of needs of child affected by disability), after subsection (3) there is inserted—\n“(4) In determining the needs of a child under subsection (3) above, the local authority shall take account—\n(a) where it appears to them that a person (“the carer”) provides a substantial amount of care on a regular basis for the child, or for another person in the child’s family who is being assessed under that subsection, of such care as is being so provided; and\n(b) in so far as it is reasonable and practicable to do so, of—\n(i) the views of the parent or guardian of the child, and the child; and\n(ii) the views of the carer,\nprovided that the parent, guardian, child or carer in question has a wish, or as the case may be, a capacity, to express a view.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/5/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:06.261823+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}