It depends who is the manager and what is meant by a managed account. A commissioned budget spent on services contracted to the council, is the council’s business, not the client’s. A budget which has been converted into a direct payment in the person’s own name will be held in a bank account in their […]
MENON, MENON & AUTUMN DAYS LTD v HEREFORDSHIRE COUNCIL (2016) Keywords: Defensible decision making; safeguarding The claimants owned and ran a residential care home which had local authority funded residents (under a framework contract). The contract provisions permitted the local authority to terminate the contract with notice, or immediately in the event of a serious
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Access to personal records – fettering of discretion – adoption An adoption agency was ordered by the High Court to reconsider its decision not to allow an adopted woman to view confidential documents about her natural and adoptive parents. The judge said that the agency had not lawfully exercised its discretion. It had applied its
Mr Kennedy (the ‘Appellant’) was a journalist who appealed against a decision that the Charity Commission (the ‘Respondent’) was not legally required, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘FOIA’), to disclose certain documents. These documents related to three inquiries into the ‘Mariam Appeal’, following Mr Kennedy’s suspicion that charitable funds from the Appeal had
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