A local authority that carry out a parent carer's needs assessment must consider the assessment and decide—
whether the parent carer has needs for support in relation to the care which he or she provides or intends to provide;
whether the disabled child cared for has needs for support;
if paragraph (a) or (b) applies, whether those needs could be satisfied (wholly or partly) by services which the authority may provide under section 17; and
if they could be so satisfied, whether or not to provide any such services in relation to the parent carer or the disabled child cared for.