Amendments

Section 6, Making a Property and Affairs Deputyship Application was updated in May 2024 to include more information about notifications, and information about Carer's Card accounts was added to Section 2, Identifying Support Needs.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made throughout to reflect the feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the NHS Continuing Healthcare Procedure.

In May 2024, this chapter was reviewed. As part of this review, the telephone number for iESE was removed as it is no longer valid.

In May 2024, twitter was changed to X (formerly twitter).

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made throughout to reflect the feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Procedure.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made throughout to reflect the feedback received following a full tri.x legal review.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made throughout to reflect the feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the NHS Continuing Healthcare Procedure.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 5, Arranging the Review and Preparing the Person. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Carrying Out an Assessment'.

In May 2024, minor text amendments were made to Section 3, Applying the Eligibility Criteria. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'The National Eligibility Criteria'.

In May 2024, this chapter was reviewed and refreshed including the addition of several national resources.

In May 2024, the Home Office Status, Verification, Enquiries and Checking service e-mail was updated. A link to the government guidance 'Asylum support' was added into Section 7, Providing Information and Advice.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 5, Arranging the Assessment and Preparing the Young Person. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Carrying Out an Assessment'.

In May 2024, this chapter was fully reviewed and refreshed.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 7, Preparing for the Review. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Carrying Out an Assessment'.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 1, An Introduction to Continuity of Care Arrangements. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Continuity of Care when a Person Moves'.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 3, Applying the Eligibility Criteria. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'The National Eligibility Criteria'.

In May 2024, this chapter was fully reviewed and refreshed.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 5, Arranging the Assessment and Preparing the Young Carer. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Carrying Out an Assessment'.

In May 2024, text amendments were made to Section 1, Arranging the Assessment and Preparing the Person. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Carrying Out an Assessment'.

In May 2024, a scope box was added to the top of this chapter, alerting and signposting practitioners to the statutory guidance issued in January 2024: Discharge from mental health inpatient settings. The chapter also had a full legal review and additional information was added into Section 5, Aftercare Planning and Assessment around support to claim benefits in line with the findings of the ombudsman decision NHS Devon ICB (22 008 927b).

In May 2024, text amendments were made to Section 5, Arranging the Assessment and Preparing the Person. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Carrying Out an Assessment'.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 5, Arranging the Assessment and Preparing the Parent Carer. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Carrying Out an Assessment'.

In May 2024, text amendments were made to reflect changes made to the Financial Assessment Procedure.

This new chapter was added into the 'Universal Procedures' Section.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 4, Arranging the Assessment and Preparing the Person. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Carrying Out an Assessment'. 

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 3, The Purpose of any Assessment. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'The Purpose of Assessment'.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 3, Applying the Eligibility Criteria. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'The National Eligibility Criteria'.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 3, The Purpose of any Assessment. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'The Purpose of Assessment'. 

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 5, Arranging the Assessment and Preparing the Carer. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Carrying Out an Assessment'. 

Section 9, Out of Area Services was updated in May 2024 to reflect amendments made previously to Ordinary Residence chapters following a legal review.

In May 2024, a new Section 5, Identifying Carers was added.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 3, The Purpose of any Assessment. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'The Purpose of Assessment'.

This new chapter was added into the Specialist Procedures section.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made to Section 3, Failure of a Regulated Provider. These amendments were made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Commissioning Responsibilities under the Care Act'.

In May 2024, relevant text amendments were made throughout to reflect the feedback received following a full tri.x legal review. In addition to this, information about use of the ADASS Priority Tool for Deprivation of Liberty Requests was added to Section 5, Receiving a Standard Authorisation Request. 

In November 2023, a new Section 2, Final Demand Guide was added. Updated in May 2023, the Final Demand Guide provides basic advice for health and social care workers, describing how they can practically help people with debt and mental health problems.

In November 2023, information about the Caldicott Principles was added.

In November 2023, the government 'Making Finance Decisions for Young People: Parent and Carer Toolkit' was added to the list of tools to support the Transition Plan conversation.

In November 2023, this chapter was refreshed throughout and amended to reflect changes to the immigration status requirements for people from EEA countries. The guidance 'Supporting Migrants Lacking Mental Capacity in Relation to Immigration Matters' was added into Section 1, Using this Procedure.  

In November 2023, this chapter was fully reviewed and refreshed.

Section 8, Reporting Concerns about a Service Provider was revised in November 2023 to better reflect the remit of the reablement team.

In November 2023, this chapter was fully reviewed and refreshed. This included adding clarity around state imputability, moving information about Best Interests into Section 6, Applying to the Court, adding information about the National Deprivation of Liberty Court and adding a new Section 8, Challenging a DoLS Authorisation using Section 21A.

Section 10, Advance Care Planning was refreshed in November 2023 to include information about the Universal Principles of Advance Care Planning.

Section 5, Meeting the Urgent Needs of a Person who is not Ordinarily Resident was reviewed and refreshed in November 2023. A link to the Section 117 Aftercare Procedure was also added into Section 4, Decisions about Ordinary Residence in Specific Circumstances.

In November 2023, information about the Caldicott Principles was added into the 'Providing Information about a Carer' section.

In November 2023, this new chapter was added into the 'Mental Health Social Work' section.

In November 2023, this chapter was fully reviewed and refreshed. This included providing greater clarity on state imputability and adding two new sections: Section 15, Challenging an Authorisation using Section 21A and Section 16, The Future of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. At the same time, the Liberty Protection Safeguards Procedure was deleted.

In November 2023, the 'Ordinary Residence' section was reviewed and refreshed.

Section 3, Ordinary Residence was updated iIn November 2023 to reflect the Supreme Court judgement R (Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2023] UKSC 31. A link to the Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults documents was also added into Section 9, Further Information.

In November 2023, information about the Caldicott Principles was added into the 'Providing Information about a Person/Carer' section.

In November 2023, information about the Caldicott Principles was added into the 'Providing Information about a Person' section.

In May 2023, information from this procedure relating to providing information about a person/carer was used to create a new standalone chapter in the Universal Procedures section.

In May 2023, information from this procedure relating to providing information about a person/carer was used to create a new standalone chapter in the Universal Procedures section.

In May 2023, a link to this new procedure was added into Universal Procedures.

In May 2023, a link to the new Section 117 Aftercare Procedure was added into Section 1, Section 117.

In May 2023, information from this procedure relating to providing information about a person/carer was used to create a new standalone chapter in the Universal Procedures section.

In May 2023, this new chapter was added into the Universal Procedures. The information previously sat in the 'Actions and Next Steps' procedure but was relocated.

In May 2023, this new chapter was added into the Mental Health Social Work section.

Section 14, Deciding how the Plan will be Reviewed and Monitored was revised in November 2022 to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Care and Support Plans should be reviewed.

Section 2, A Brief Introduction to Social Circumstances Reports was updated in November 2022 to clarify who can complete a Social Circumstances Report. Section 6, Writing the Report was also updated to include links to the HM Courts & Tribunals Service forms.

In November 2022, this procedure was updated to reflect the fact that CareCubed no longer works on individual licenses.

Section 14, Deciding how the Plan will be Reviewed and Monitored was revised in November 2022 to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Support Plans should be reviewed.

Section 3, Legal Requirements of Review and Section 6, Responding to a Review Request were both revised in November 2022 to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Care and Support/Support Plans should be reviewed.

Section 2, Deciding the Timeframe for the Next Review was revised in November 2022 to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Care and Support/Support Plans should be reviewed.

In November 2022, all occurrences of Clinical Commissioning Groups/CCG's across the tri.x site were replaced by Integrated Care Boards/ICBs. This change was made to reflect changes introduced by the Health and Care Act 2022. This change affected multiple procedures.

Section 5, Arranging the Review and Preparing the Person was revised in November 2022 to better clarify the statutory requirements around the frequency in which Care and Support/Support Plans should be reviewed.

In November 2022, this new procedure was added to the Universal Procedures section. Relevant links to it were also added.