ociated with the provision of community care services nder A can effectively be used to appropriate cases, representatives of disabled people should be appointed to make consulted at stage of an assessment and to be allowed behalf 28 to the local authority on the disabled person's Further legal duties imposed upon local authorities 1990 Community care services further duties on the local authority towards adult has added The people in their area (for the new duties towards those under 18, see disabled underlying principle of the NHSCCA is that every local 102). authority must now produce and publish a plan for the provision of communty care services their area. Social services departments have direct legal and for producing such a plan (see Clark and Lapsley 1995) financial responsibilit local and those care services include services provided by the authority, which they arrange to be provided by any other appropriate body of the funding arrangements imposed by government, per cent money provided by central government to local authorities purpose must be used to purchase community services from the independent (private 28 For a useful summary and commentary on the DPSCAA see the Handbook of Voluntary organisations on the Disabled Persons ices, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986 IVSO/GLC.