These regulations make further amendments to the National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992 (“the Principal Regulations”).

The Principal Regulations determine the way that local authorities assess the ability of a person to pay for the accommodation which local authorities arrange under Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948.

Regulation 3 amends the Principal Regulations by introducing an income disregard for payments towards the cost of child care under section 63(6)(b) of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 made to a resident who is undertaking instruction connected with the health service by virtue of arrangements made under that section.

Regulation 4 provides for the same payments to be disregarded as capital and also introduces a capital disregard for payments made under section 2 or 3 of the Age-Related Payments Act 2004.