The Health and Social Care Act 2008 is amended as follows.
In section 48 (special reviews and investigations), in subsection (6) omit “or (3)”.
In section 50 (failings by English local authorities)—
in subsection (2), in the words before paragraph (a), omit “subject to subsection (3)”;
for subsections (3) and (4) substitute—
(3A)Nothing in subsection (2) prevents a report published under section 46(1)(c), 46A(1)(c), 46B(1)(c) or 48(4) from specifying respects in which the Commission considers a local authority to be failing and making recommendations to the local authority for addressing the failure.