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Guidance to Councils with social services responsibilities on the abolition of preserved rights
Corporate AuthorDepartment of Health - DH
PublisherDepartment of Health, London, March 2002
Pagesunnumbered (Local authority circular, LAC (2002)7)
SourceDepartment of Health, PO Box 777, London SE1 6XH. www.doh.uk/doh/coinh.htm
KeywordsCirculars ; Department of Health [legislation and circulars] ; Local Authority Circulars ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Charges ; Local Authority.
AnnotationFrom 8 April 2002, councils with social services responsibilities will have responsibility for making residential accommodation arrangements for people who were in independent sector residential care and nursing homes on 31 March 1993 and who are entitled to Income Support (IS) at preserved rights rates. This circular contains statutory guidance, which is issued under section 7(1) of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970, and supersedes that set out in LAC(93)6 issued in March 1993, and that in LAC(2001)19 issued in June 2001. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-020325208 C
Classmark6I: VK9: LAC(2002)7: KW: LHB: QEJ: PE *

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