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People with preserved rights
— a socially excluded minority | | Author(s) | William Laing |
| Corporate Author | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF |
| Publisher | YPS, for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, 2000 |
| Pages | 33 pp |
| Source | York Publishing Services, 64 Hallfield Road, Layerthorpe, York YO31 7ZQ. |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Charges ; Finance [care] ; Rights [elderly] ; Social security benefits ; Policy. |
| Annotation | Care home residents whose only source of state funding is "preserved rights" Income Support represent a socially excluded minority amongst one of the most vulnerable groups in society. In August 1999, there were some 64,000 such claimants remaining in care homes, diminishing by some 20% a year. The author assesses the merits of different policy options available to the Government to tackle the anomalous position of care home residents with preserved rights. He concludes that the preferred option is abolition of the preserved rights regime, and the transfer of funding and care management responsibilities to local authorities, subject to safeguards that ensure residents have the backing of adequate local authority funding to pay for care service responsibilities. The research demonstrates that the cost to the state of meeting shortfalls would be small. The largest impact on public expenditure would be the extra cost of purchasing and care management arrangements for local authorities. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000627001 B |
| Classmark | KX: KW: QEJ: QC: IKR: JH: QAD |
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