Care Charging

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Dear North Yorkshire County Council,

Please answer the following questions, or as many as is possible within time & cost parameters starting at #1.
1. How do you calculate the level of contribution that adult social care recipients should make to their care packages?
2. What income are social care recipients allowed to retain, after their contribution to their care package has been deducted?
3. What do you allow as Disability Related Expenses? Please provide a copy of your guidance if this is easier.
4. Do you use pre-payment cards for care payments? If yes can people opt out of using these?
5. Are there any restrictions on what Personal Budgets and Direct Payments can be spent on? Please provide a copy of your guidance on this.
6. Please provide a copy of the guidance document that your authority uses to make decisions on Direct Payment packages.
7. Do you have a contingency policy for DP users. If yes please attach a copy.
8. If a PA is off work sick do you provide extra funding to cover their sick pay – as individual employers can no longer get statutory sick pay reimbursed?
9. "What percentage of Direct Payments rates, that are paid to adults who directly employ their own PAs, are allowed to be spent on the following additional expenses?"
• National insurance employer contributions
• Statutory paid holidays
• Payroll charges
• Independent living insurance
• Advertising
• National Minimum Wage increase from April 2016
• Redundancy payments
• Pensions
• Training
• Contingency funding

Yours faithfully,

Ian Burnip

North Yorkshire Council

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Sent on behalf of Tony Law Head of Performance and Intelligence

 

Dear Mr Burnip

 

Further to your Freedom of Information request please find below our
response to your questions:

 

1. How do you calculate the level of contribution that adult social care
recipients should make to their care packages?

 

North Yorkshire Health and Adult Services follow national guidance
contained in the Care Act, by completing a means tested financial
assessment.  We do not operate on banded charges.

 

2. What income are social care recipients allowed to retain, after their
contribution to their care package has been deducted?

 

North Yorkshire Health and Adult Services follow national guidance
contained in the Care Act, by completing a means tested financial
assessment.  We do not operate on banded charges.

 

 

3. What do you allow as Disability Related Expenses? Please provide a copy
of your guidance if this is easier.

 

Disability Related Expenses is agreed by having an individual conversation
what the client during which all expenses incurred, over and above those
incurred by a person without an illness or disability are identified.  We
do not operate on a banded charges basis nor do we have set amounts
allowed automatically if for example X receives lower or higher Attendance
Allowances.  It is very much an individualised approach and officers are
trained to have that conversation.  They may also consult with the social
care assessor if required.

 

 

4. Do you use pre-payment cards for care payments? If yes can people opt
out of using these?

 

No, North Yorkshire does not use pre-payment cards.

 

5. Are there any restrictions on what Personal Budgets and Direct Payments
can be spent on? Please provide a copy of your guidance on this.

 

They can be spent in any way to support a person to achieve their outcomes
as per Care Act 2014 guidance.

 

6. Please provide a copy of the guidance document that your authority uses
to make decisions on Direct Payment packages.

 

National Care Act 2014.

[1]www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-act-statutory-guidance/care-and-support-statutory-guidance

 

7. Do you have a contingency policy for DP users. If yes please attach a
copy.

No, North Yorkshire does not have a contingency policy for DP users.

 

8. If a PA is off work sick do you provide extra funding to cover their
sick pay – as individual employers can no longer get statutory sick pay
reimbursed?

 

Approach on a case by case basis and where necessary funds are provided to
cover sick pay to enable the employer to continue to secure the support
they need.

 

9. "What percentage of Direct Payments rates, that are paid to adults who
directly employ their own PAs, are allowed to be spent on the following
additional expenses?"

 

• National insurance employer contributions • Statutory paid holidays •
Payroll charges • Independent living insurance • Advertising • National
Minimum Wage increase from April 2016 • Redundancy payments • Pensions •
Training • Contingency funding

 

DP’s to employers cover all the expenses above. There is no set percentage
rate because the financial liabilities will vary depending on the number
of hours of support a person needs.

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

Tony Law Head of Performance and Intelligence

 

 

 

 

 

 

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