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Charges for residential accommodation: CRAG amendment no. 16: national assistance (residential accommodation) additional payments and assessment of resources) (amendment) (England) regulations 2001
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Campaigners unimpressed by guidance on home care charges
- Author:
- WATERS Joanna
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.1.01, 2001, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Advocacy groups hoped the government's guidance on home care charges would go a long way to ending the postcode lottery. This report suggests that they will be disappointed.
Why the government must ring the changes on charges
- Author:
- WRIGHT Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(4), June 2000, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Welcomes the Government's announcement that it will amend the Care Standards Bill to enable it to issue enforceable guidelines on charging for care services. Describes some of the adverse consequences on service users when councils charge for essential services and the safeguards that should be included in any national guidance.
Charges for residential accommodation: CRAG amendment no. 11; National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) Regulations
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 24p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Charges for residential accommodation: CRAG amendment no. 10; National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) Regulations 1999
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 150p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Circular making minor amendments to the CRAG guide; setting out the revised personal expenses allowances from 12 April 1999 for people provided with residential accommodation under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948; and providing a complete replacement of CRAG incorporating amendments 5-9 as well as containing sidelined paragraphs which constitute amendment 10. The covering circulars which accompanied the original guidance and amendments 5-9 are reproduced in a revised annex H to CRAG.
Charges for residential accommodation: CRAG amendment No. 8; National Assistance (sums for personal requirements) Regulations 1997
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
I. National assistance (sums for personal requirements) regulations 1995; II. Manuscript amendment to charging for residential accommodation guide (CRAG)
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Part I sets out the revised personal expenses allowances from 10 April 1995 for people provided with residential accommodation under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948 and advises of an increase in the therapeutic earnings limit for persons in receipt of incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance. It replaces circular LAC(94)14. Part II instructs LA's to make a small manuscript amendment to CRAG.
Charges for residential accommodation: CRAG amendment No.5
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 80p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Charges for residential accommodation; CRAG amendment no. 6
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Commentary on Social Services Inspectorate advice note on discretionary charges for non-residential adult social services
- Authors:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT INFORMATION UNIT, ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN AUTHORITIES
- Publisher:
- Local Government Information Unit/Association of Metropolitan Authorities
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Under section 17 of the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudication Act 1983 (HASSASSA), social services departments have a discretion to charge for most non-residential services for older or disabled adults. Government policy after 1990 has actively encouraged this. In January 1994 the SSI issued an advice note for its inspectors on issues affecting how authorities exercise their powers under section 17. This paper comments on the advice note paragraph by paragraph.