Indicative Budgets

The whole West Northants care system is criticised for its s117-Lite approach (before the 2022 Act but despite long-standing statutory duties of co-operation)

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Decision Date:   29 April 2024 Summary: An autistic man with learning disabilities, Mr B, was discharged from psychiatric hospital in 2017, into a series of supported living placements, without a s117 care plan, only the Care Act ever having been used. This was done without reasonable adjustments made for his communication difficulties. Whenever arrangements broke […]

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Should the CHC care and support plan be built on the type of care and any other support needed to meet health and social needs, rather than work backwards from an indicative budget that is just a sum of money? For example, we have been told that if we need staff paid at a higher rate, this will mean fewer hours of care will be able to be funded. Is this correct?

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Yes. It is wholly unlawful to take a budget out of thin air and say ‘that will have to do.’ A budget might be informed by a resource allocation system (a computerised equivalence calculator based on algorithms) but only if its workings are rationally driven by real costs in the real market for real people

Should the CHC care and support plan be built on the type of care and any other support needed to meet health and social needs, rather than work backwards from an indicative budget that is just a sum of money? For example, we have been told that if we need staff paid at a higher rate, this will mean fewer hours of care will be able to be funded. Is this correct? Read More »