The Social Security (Information-sharing in relation to Welfare Services etc.) Regulations 2012

Prescribed information

3.—(1) The information prescribed under section 130(2)(c) of the 2012 Act (information held by a local authority) is—

(a) whether a resident is meeting in full the cost of the provision to them of residential care and if so the date this commenced and the period over which the cost is intended to be met;

(b) whether the local authority is funding or has funded in full or in part the cost of the provision to a resident of residential care and if so—

(i) the date from which the funding commenced and the period covered or intended to be covered by it;

(ii) the date when the funding stopped or is intended to stop;

(iii) the enactment under which the funding is being or was provided;

(iv) whether there exists any agreement enabling the local authority to recover the cost of the funding on the sale of the resident’s home and if so, whether that recovery has commenced or when it is intended to commence; and

(v) whether the local authority has entered into a deferred payment agreement with the resident and if so the date this commenced and the period the agreement is intended to cover.

(2) In this regulation—

(a) “deferred payment agreement” has the meaning given in section 55(3) of the Health and Social Care Act 2001(1) or (in Scotland) section 6(2) of the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002(2);

(b) “resident” means a recipient of residential care.

(1)

2001 c. 15.

(2)

2002 asp. 5.