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Urgent need

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Urgent need

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Care Act 2014, S.19(3)

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(3) A local authority may meet an adult's needs for care and support which appear to it to be urgent (regardless of whether the adult is ordinarily resident in its area) without having yet-- (a) carried out a needs assessment or a financial assessment, or (b) made a determination under section 13(1). (4) A local authority may meet an adult's needs under subsection (3) where, for example, the adult is terminally ill (within the meaning given in section 82(4) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012).

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