This section applies where a local housing authority have reason to believe that an applicant with whom a person under the age of 18 normally resides, or might reasonably be expected to reside—
A local housing authority shall make arrangements for ensuring that, where this section applies—
Where the local housing authority and the social services authority for a district are the same authority (a "unitary authority"), that authority shall make arrangements for ensuring that, where this section applies—
Nothing in subsection (2) or (3) affects any power apart from this section to disclose information relating to the applicant's case to the social services authority or to the social services department (as the case may be) without the consent of the applicant.
Where a social services authority—
the local housing authority shall provide them with such advice and assistance as is reasonable in the circumstances.
A unitary authority shall make arrangements for ensuring that, where they make a decision of a kind mentioned in subsection (5)(a), the housing department provide the social services department with such advice and assistance as the social services department may reasonably request.
In this section, in relation to a unitary authority—
"the housing department" means those persons responsible for the exercise of their housing functions; and
"the social services department" means those persons responsible for the exercise of their social services functions under Part 3 of the Children Act 1989 or Part 6 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.