Q: Are local authorities required to cover the cost of PPE for PAs funded by Direct Payments, if personal/incontinence care is in a care plan? If so, are they responsible for ensuring costs cover the appropriate sized PPE (such as Large/XL gloves and aprons etc for male/larger PAs)? And if a service user has been […]
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For context, the council’s percentage increase was 1.7% It is CASCAIDr’s firm view that if a person has a budget or a direct payment for a given number of hours of service in response to assessed unmet eligible needs – and the council gives an uplift for the provider (budget) or the holder (direct payment)
No, I don’t think that that would be regarded as a legitimate use of the information power that they DO have, or a reasonable condition. That’s my gut feeling, in terms of the public law tests – is it rational and is it lawful. The power to impose conditions and the power to demand information
Yes. A welfare benefits appointee may be authorised to run direct payments for a direct payment under the Care Act, or a personal health budget, (PHB). However, being a welfare benefits appointee does not automatically entitle or allow them to do so.Direct payments for an adult’s social services care (or their PHB for their health
Yes. The distinction is between getting ready to go to a hospital appointment, which is social care, and getting TO and being supported at the hospital appointment which is not. There is case law to support that distinction being drawn. The council is unlikely to know where the justification for that line is, though, so
No council would be able to afford to have an assessor in a person’s home for 3 weeks, but councils often expect to ask to use technology – and it’s not unreasonable of them, since they are spending public money and do have to be satisfied as to needs. Obviously they can’t expect to put
The answer is that the authority need only fund the direct payment to the level required to meet the needs. It will perhaps therefore be saying that it need only pay £x – because that’s the rate that it pays its contracted agency providers, on its own terms and conditions. You would be saying that that’s all
That is because the application of the charging rules gives them the evidence that ‘entitles’ them to say this, if you leave it like that. You are entitled to a written statement and if you can’t understand the reason for the jump, you should not just leave it like that, and let the debt to
I asked for a copy of how the DP had been calculated as I had sent my own calculations showing there was no way I could reach the outcomes of the package on the DP allocated. I labelled the letter as a formal complaint and sent it to the complaints team at the LA. It
The answer is that the authority need only fund the direct payment to the level defensibly required to meet the needs. It will perhaps therefore be saying that it need only pay £x – its justification being because that’s the rate that it pays its contracted agency providers, on its own terms and conditions. You would then