PART 10COMPLAINTS, REPRESENTATIONS AND ADVOCACY SERVICES
CHAPTER 3ADVOCACY SERVICES
181Provision of advocacy services
1
Regulations may require a local authority to arrange for advocacy services to be made available to people with needs for care and support (whether or not those needs are being met by a local authority); this is subject to section 182.
2
“Advocacy services” are services which provide assistance (by way of representation or otherwise) to persons for purposes relating to their care and support.
3
The regulations may specify—
a
the persons, or description of persons, to whom advocacy services are to be made available;
b
the circumstances in which advocacy services are to be made available;
c
the persons, or description of persons, by whom advocacy services may, or may not, be provided.
4
The regulations must require a local authority to give publicity to its arrangements for making advocacy services available.