The WLR Daily case summaries
[2015] WLR (D) 298
LOCAL GOVERNMENT— Community Care Services— Provision of accommodation— Incapacitated person reaching age of 18 having been in care of local authority— — Dispute as to which local authority responsible for providing his accommodation as adult— — Secretary of State determining incapacitated adult’s place of “ordinary residence”— — Whether Secretary of State empowered to make determination— — Whether ordinary residence to be determined by reference to place of parents’ ordinary residence— — Principles applicable— — National Assistance Act 1948 (as amended by Local Governement 1972, s 195(6), Sch 23, para 2(1), Children Act 1989, s 108(5), Sch 13, para 11(1), National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990,,s 42(1)(a) and Health and Social Care Act 2008, s 148(2)), ss 21, 24— — Children Act 1989 (as amended by Children Leaving Home Care) Act 2000, s 2(4)) ss 20, 23C(4)(c)