Draft Charging Policy for Social Care Services
In this section
- Managing property and finances
- Advocacy
- Deferred payments
- Invoicing for charges
- Non-payment of charges and debt
- Deprivation of Assets
- Additional costs (AC) for permanent / temporary admissions to a care home
- Additional costs (AC) for respite/short-term admissions to a care home
- Application of the rules to individual cases
- Reviews and methods of appeal
- Appendix 1 - Variations/adjustments to charges for financially assessed services
- Appendix 2 - Operational rules for commencement and termination of packages of care and support
Advocacy
21. Advocacy
Carmarthenshire will engage with the person with care and support needs or their representative to complete the financial assessment and charging process. Where a person is identified as needing support to engage in this process then Carmarthenshire will, through that person’s social worker, seek to identify someone who can help to advocate on behalf of that person.
Carmarthenshire will also inform people with care and support needs who are receiving a chargeable service of their right to obtain independent financial advice.
