Amendments
January 2023
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Welcome page | A note has been added to the main introduction text, advising users to check the local resources area for any additional local guidance that should be used alongside the core content. |
| Care and Support/Support Planning | Section 14, Deciding how the Plan will be Reviewed and Monitored has been revised to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Care and Support/Support Plans should be reviewed. |
| Legal Requirements of a Care and Support/Support Plan Review and Tools | Section 3, Legal Requirements of Review and Section 6, Responding to a Review Request have been revised to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Care and Support/Support Plans should be reviewed. |
| Preparing to Carry Out a Care and Support/Support Plan Review | Section 5, Arranging the Review and Preparing the Person/Carer has been revised to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Support Plans should be reviewed. |
| Actions Following a Care and Support/Support Plan Review | Section 1, Deciding the Timeframe for the Next Review, has been revised to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Support Plans should be reviewed. |
| Social Circumstances Report | Section 2, A Brief Introduction to Social Circumstances Reports has been updated to clarify who can complete a Social Circumstances Report, and Section 6, Writing the Report has been updated to include links to the HM Courts & Tribunals Service forms. |
| Deputyship and Financial Affairs | Information about notifying interested parties has been added to Section 6, Making a Deputyship Application. This information explains the Court’s requirement for 3 respondents. |
| Whole site | All occurrences of Clinical Commissioning Groups/CCG’s have been changed to Integrated Care Boards/ICBs. This change was made to reflect changes introduced by the Health and Care Act 2022. A whole site search has also been completed as this change affected multiple procedures. |
| New Procedures and Features | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Providing Information about a Person or Carer | This new procedure has been added. |
| Next Update: June 2023 |
July 2022
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Charging & Financial Assessment Procedure | In section 1 ‘the team responsible for financial assessment’ has been replaced with ‘the Client Financial Services Team’.
In section 3, a link to Delta has been added. |
| Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Spaces) Procedure | Grammatical errors have been corrected. |
| Prisons and Approved Premises | Section 3 Ordinary Residence has been refreshed to provide added clarity around ordinary residence during detention, and the responsibility for meeting needs. |
The Duty to co-operate (various procedures) “Where the Local Authority requests another person to work jointly in some way to benefit the person with Care and Support needs that person has a duty to co-operate with the request” |
To clarify that the duty applies equally to persons and organisations, all occurrences of this text have been amended to: “Where the Local Authority requests another party work jointly in some way to benefit the person with Care and Support needs that party has a duty to co-operate with the request”. |
April 2022
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Safeguarding Adults | Section 2, Reporting Abuse and Neglect has been updated to include information about the new digital reporting form. |
