Amendments
January 2024
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Procedure | Section 17, Challenging an Authorisation using Section 21A and Section 18, The Future of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards have been added. Section 6, Requests for a Deprivation to be Considered has been updated to provide greater clarity on state imputability. At the same time, the Liberty Protection Safeguards Procedure has been deleted. |
| Receiving a Contact or Written Referral | A new Section 5, Identifying Carers has been added. |
| Receiving a Contact or Referral (Mental Health Services) | A new Section 5, Identifying Carers has been added. |
| Receiving a Contact or Referral (Hospital Activity Recovery Team) | A new Section 5, Identifying Carers has been added. |
| Receiving a Contact or Written Referral (Carers) | A new Section 5, Identifying Carers has been added. |
| Deciding the Outcome of a Contact or Written Referral (Early Help and Help Team) | The 'Ordinary Residence' section has been reviewed and refreshed. |
| Deciding the Outcome of a Contact or Referral (Community Activity Recovery Team) | The 'Ordinary Residence' section has been reviewed and refreshed. |
| Deciding the Outcome of a Contact or Referral (Hospital Activity Recovery Team) | The 'Ordinary Residence' section has been reviewed and refreshed. |
| Deciding the Outcome of a Contact or Written Referral | The 'Ordinary Residence' section has been reviewed and refreshed. |
| Deciding the Outcome of a Contact or Written Referral (Transition to Adult Care and Support) | The 'Ordinary Residence' section has been reviewed and refreshed. |
| Deciding the Outcome of a Contact or Written Referral (Carers) | The 'Ordinary Residence' section has been reviewed and refreshed. |
| Actions and Next Steps | Information about the Caldicott Principles has been added into the 'Providing Information about a Person' section. |
| Actions and Next Steps (Early Help and Help Team) | Information about the Caldicott Principles has been added into the 'Providing Information about a Person' section. |
| Actions and Next Steps (Community Activity Recovery Team) | Information about the Caldicott Principles has been added into the 'Providing Information about a Person' section. |
| Actions and Next Steps (Hospital Activity Recovery Team) | Information about the Caldicott Principles has been added into the 'Providing Information about a Person' section. |
| Actions and Next Steps (Transition to Adult Care and Support) | Information about the Caldicott Principles has been added into the 'Providing Information about a Person' section. |
| Actions and Next Steps (Carers) | Information about the Caldicott Principles has been added into the 'Providing Information about a Carer' section. |
| Contact and Referral Adult Care and Support Procedures (Mental Health Services) | Information about the Caldicott Principles has been added into the 'Providing Information about a Person' section. |
| The Transition Plan (Transition to Adult Care and Support) | The Government 'Making Finance Decisions for Young People: Parent and Carer' Toolkit has been added into the list of tools to support the Transition Plan conversation. |
| Providing Information about a Person or Carer | Information about the Caldicott Principles has been added. |
| Recognising and Responding to Deprivations of Liberty | This Procedure has been fully reviewed and refreshed. This included moving information about Best Interests into Section 6, Applying to the Court, adding information about the National Deprivation of Liberty Court and adding a new Section 8, Challenging a DoLS Authorisation using Section 21A. Section 2, Identifying Deprivations of Liberty (ages 18 and over) and Section 5, Identifying and Responding to Deprivations of Liberty (ages 16 and 17) have both been updated to provide greater clarity on state imputability. |
| Resident Affairs and Deputyship Procedure | This Procedure has been fully reviewed and refreshed including. Section 6, Making a Property and Affairs Deputyship Application has been updated to include more information about notifications. Information about Carer's Card accounts has been added into Section 2, Identifying Support Needs. |
| Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Spaces) Procedure | A new Section 2, Final Demand Guide has been added. Updated in May 2023, the Final Demand Guide provides basic advice for health and social care workers, describing how they can practically help people with debt and mental health problems. |
| Ordinary Residence Procedure | Section 5, Meeting the Urgent Needs of a Person who is not Ordinarily Resident has been reviewed and refreshed. A link to the Section 117 Aftercare Procedure section on ordinary residence has also been added. |
| Social Circumstances Report | This Procedure has been fully reviewed and refreshed. |
| Section 117 Aftercare | A link to the Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults documents has been added into Section 9, Further Information. |
| New Procedures and Features | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Understanding the Mental Health Act | This Procedure has been added. |
| Community Mental Health Framework | This Procedure has been added. |
| Removed Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Liberty Protection Safeguards Procedure | Following the Government's decision to delay implementations of the Liberty Protection Safeguards, this procedure has been deleted. |
| Next Update: July 2024 |
July 2023
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Recording and Keeping Records | The Providing Information about a Person or Carer Procedure has been linked to this policy |
| Actions and Next Steps (all variations) | Information from this procedure relating to providing information about a person / carer has been used to create a new standalone Procedure in the Universal Procedures section. |
| Contact and Referrals Adult Care and Support Procedures (Mental Health Services) | Information from this procedure relating to providing information about a person / carer has been used to create a new standalone Procedure in the Universal Procedures section. |
| Joint Packages of Health and Social Care | This Procedure has been fully reviewed and refreshed. |
| NHS Continuing Healthcare Procedure | This Procedure has been fully reviewed and refreshed. |
| NHS-funded Nursing Care Procedure (FNC) | This Procedure has been fully reviewed and refreshed. |
| End of Life Procedures and Practice Guidance | Section 10, Advanced Care Planning has been refreshed to include information about the universal principles of Advanced Care Planning. |
| No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) | This Procedure has been refreshed throughout and amended to reflect changes to the immigration status requirements for people from EEA countries. |
| New Procedures and Features | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Providing Information about a Person or Carer | This new Procedure has been added into the Universal Procedures. The information previously sat in the Procedure 'Actions and Next Steps' but has been relocated. |
| Section 117 Aftercare | This new Procedure has been added in the Mental Health and Social Work Section. |
| Removed Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Care Programme Approach | This Procedure has been removed because CPA has been suspended by the Community Mental Health Framework. |
January 2023
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Welcome to our Procedures, Practice Guidance and Tools for Adult Services | A note has been added into the main introduction text, advising users to check the local resources area for any additional local guidance that should be used alongside the local content. |
| Care and Support Planning | Section 14, Deciding how the plan will be reviewed and monitored has been revised to be better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which support plans should be revised. |
| Legal Requirements of a Care and Support Plan Review and Tools | Section 3, Legal Requirements of Review and Section 6 Responding to a review request have both been revised to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which care and support plans should be reviewed. |
| Preparing to carry out a Care and Support Plan Review | Section 5, Arranging the Review and Preparing the Carer has been revised to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Care and Support Plans should be reviewed. |
| Actions Following a Care and Support Plan Review | Deciding the timeframes for the next review has been revised to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Care and Support Plans should be reviewed. |
| Support Planning (Carers) | Section 13, Deciding how the plan will be reviewed and monitored has been revised to be better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which support plans should be revised. |
| Legal Requirements of a Support Plan Review and tools (Carers) | Section 3, Legal Requirements of Review and Section 6 Responding to a review request have both been revised to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which care and support plans should be reviewed. |
| Preparing to carry out a Support Plan Review (Carers) | Section 4, Arranging the Review and Preparing the Carer has been revised to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Support Plans should be reviewed. |
| Actions Following a Support Plan Review (Carers) | Deciding the timeframes for the next review has been revised to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Care and Support Plans should be reviewed. |
| Liberty Protection Safeguards Procedure | Procedure has been updates due to revised implementation timescales. |
| Care Cubed Procedure | This procedure has been updated to reflect the fact that Care Cubed no longer works on individual licenses. |
| Social Circumstances Report | Section 2, has been updated to clarify who can complete a social circumstance report and section 6 has been updated to include links to HM Courts and Tribunals Services forms. |
| Whole site | A link to the new policy Recording and Keeping records has been added into the following: All recording should be in line with local recording requirements. For further guidance see: Recording and Keeping Records. |
| Whole site | Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have been replaced by Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). |
| New Procedures and Features | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Recording and Keeping Records | This new Procedure has been added into Specialist and Universal Procedures. |
July 2022
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Resident Affairs and Deputyship Procedures | Information about notifying interested parties has been added into Section 6, Making a Deputyship Application. This information explains the Court's requirement for 3 respondents. |
| Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space) Procedure | Grammatical errors have been corrected |
| Legal Services | This procedure has been refreshed. |
| 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.” |
January 2022
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Introduction | New subheadings, and information about amendments and local resources has been added. |
| Mental Health Services Introduction | A reference and link to the new AMHP Procedure has been added. |
| Safeguarding Adults | The procedure 'Adult Safeguarding Procedures' has been renamed to better reflect its scope. |
| Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Spaces) Procedure | A broken link has been fixed (Citizens Advice) and a typo corrected (AHMP to AMHP). |
| Commissioning and Brokerage Procedures | The following sections have been relocated to the procedure 'Arranging Support and Services':
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| Arranging Support and Services | The following new sections have been added:
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| New Procedures and Features | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| AMHP Procedure | This new procedure has been added. |
July 2021
| Updated Structure | |
| Section Title | Details |
| Main Homepage | The button 'Enter Procedures by Service or Team' has been renamed 'Procedures by Team'. The Safeguarding Adults and DoLS button has been renamed 'Safeguarding Adults, MASH & DoLS'. The MASH procedure has been relocated here. A Local Resources button has been added for improved visibility of the Local Resources area. |
| Contents | A Contents Page replaces the drop down contents tabs previously in use. The information held in this section remains unchanged. |
| Specialist and Non-Frequent Procedures | The Specialist and Non-Frequent Procedure section has been renamed 'Specialist and Universal Procedures'. The section has also been re-ordered and subdivided into 'Specialist Procedures' and 'Universal Procedures' for improved accessibility. |
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| End of Life Procedures and Practice Guidance | A new section has been added into signpost users working in learning disability services to specialist resources at the Palliative Care for People with Learning Disabilities (PCPLD) website. |
| Liberty Protection Safeguards Procedure | This procedure has been updated to reflect revised implementation timescales. |
| No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) | Updated links have been added to the No Recourse to Public Funds Network website and guidance in Section 6, Identifying People with NRPF & Section 10, Human Rights Assessment. |
| CareCubed Procedure | The Care Funding Calculator has been renamed CareCubed by its developers, the Improvement and Efficiency Social Enterprise (iESE). The procedure has been updated to reflect this change. |
| All Default Team Procedures (various) | Default procedures are those procedures that appear on multiple team homepages and are in effect 'shared' procedures. Tri.x has added information to these procedures about which teams share them, so that this is clearer. |
| Establishing Ordinary Residence | All Teams now link to a single version of this procedure. |
| Requesting a Financial Assessment | All Teams now link to a single version of this procedure. |
| New Procedures and Features | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Spaces) Procedure | This new procedure has been added. It provides guidance on The Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020, which came into force in England and Wales on 4th May 2021. |
January 2021
| New Procedures and Features | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Storage of Data on Practitioners Mobile Devices | This new procedure has been added. |
July 2020
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Recognising and Responding to Deprivations of Liberty | References to parental consent in relation to deprivations of liberty for 16 and 17 year olds have been removed in response to the Supreme Court judgement RE D (A Child) on 26th September 2019. This declared that parents cannot provide such consent. |
| Social Media (use of) | The procedure has been updated to reflect guidance on social media from the new social work regulator, Social Work England. |
December 2019
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Direct Payments | A link has been added into further guidance about the 4 consecutive weeks in a care home rule. |
| Joint Packages of Health and Social Care | The use of this procedure has been clarified in regards to Section 117 funding arrangements. |
| New Procedures and Features | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Liberty Protection Safeguards Procedure | This new procedure has been added. |
July 2019
| Updated Procedures | |
| Procedure Title | Details |
| Commissioning and Brokerage | The procedure has been updated to add information about Extra Care Sheltered Housing and Emergency Response Support. |
| NHS Funded Nursing Care Procedure | The procedure has been updated to link to the newer version of the NHS-funded Nursing Care Practice Guide, published in December 2018. |
| Interpreter and Translation Services | Section 4, Family and Friends as Interpreters has been updated to provide clarification about the appropriate use of family members or friends as interpreters under the Care Act. |
