We think that this all depends on the extent to which the person’s needs seen through the prism of Human Rights and the Mental Capacity Act, where the latter is relevant (ie their wishes and feelings and best interests) have been assessed as including the facilitation of access to their relatives, and what the relative’s situation and stance on making the journey the other way, really turns on.
If it’s a need that is key to a defensible quality of life, and to the person’s emotional and psychological wellbeing, then it’s a need – in which case it should be funded if there are no other willing or volunteered options for the journey.