ANNEX B:: CURRENT LAW RELATING TO SOCIAL CARE Community care services
528.Section 47 of the National Health Services and Community Care Act 1990 requires local authorities to assess the needs of any person who appears to them to be in need of community care services and decide in the light of that assessment whether any community care services should be provided to that person.
529.Community care services are defined in section 46(3) of the 1990 Act.