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Consultation on the regulations for Local Involvement Networks (LINks)

The Government aims to strengthen the ability of local communities to influence what health and social care services are provided and how they are run.

To help achieve this aim, legislation is currently before Parliament to establish Local Involvement Networks (LINks) across England. LINks will be made up of individuals and groups from across the community. LINks will be funded and supported to hold local health and social care services to account.

To enable LINks to carry out their role, the legislation gives the Secretary of State a power to make regulations imposing duties on commissioners and certain providers of health and social care services to respond to LINks (to requests for information and to reports and recommendations made to them by a LINk) and to allow entry by LINks to premises under certain conditions.

This document outlines draft versions of these regulations, explains more about them, and asks for views and comments on them.

• Download Have your say - Consultation on the regulations for Local Involvement Networks (LINks) (PDF, 745K)
• Download Impact Assessment of LINks Regulations (PDF, 374K)
• Download Easy read version (PDF, 1965K)
• Download Consultation on the regulations for Local Involvement Networks (LINks) response form (DOC, 29K)