Arrangements with public authorities
Section 124: Arrangements with Ministers etc: CHAI
281.Section 124 enables a Minister of the Crown to arrange for the CHAI to carry out any of its functions in relation to health schemes for which the Minister is responsible. For example, arrangements may be made between the CHAI and the Secretary of State for Defence in respect of provision of health care to the Armed Forces. Subsection (2) provides for the CHAI to also enter into similar arrangements with a Northern Ireland Minister for the Northern Irish health service.
Section 125: Arrangements with Ministers etc: CSCI
282.This section enables a Minister of the Crown to arrange for the CSCI to advise him with respect to services that are similar to English local authority social services. Subsection 1(b) also allows a Minister to request that the CSCI review, or conduct inspections in relation to social care services. For example, arrangements may be made between the CSCI and the Secretary of State for Defence in respect of provision of social care to members of the Armed Forces and their families stationed abroad. Subsection (2) provides for the CSCI to provide advice and assistance to a Northern Ireland Minister in respect of the provision of social services in Northern Ireland.
Section 126: Arrangements with the Isle of Man and Channel Islands: CHAI
283.This section enables CHAI to provide advice and assistance to the Government of the Isle of Man and the States of Jersey and the States of Guernsey with respect to the provision of health care. Such advice and assistance would only be given upon the request of the authorities in the Islands. The terms and conditions of any such arrangements could include provision for payments to be made to the CHAI.
Section 127: Arrangements with the Isle of Man and Channel Islands: CSCI
284.This section enables the same arrangements to be made between CSCI and the Isle of Man and Channel Islands as for CHAI in section 126.
Reports
Section 128: Reports: CHAI
285.This section places a duty on the CHAI to produce a report on the way it has exercised its functions during the financial year, on the provision of health care by and for NHS bodies in England and Wales and on what it has found in the course of exercising its functions under the CSA 2000.
Section 129: Reports: CSCI
286.This section places a duty on the CSCI to produce a report on the way it has exercised its functions during the financial year, and on what it has found in the course of exercising its functions during the year.
287.Sections 128(4) and 129(4) place both the CHAI and the CSCI under a duty to provide other additional reports and information on the exercise of their respective functions as the Secretary of State may request during the year.
