Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 2840
Social Care, England
The Care and Support (Personal Budget: Exclusion of Costs) Regulations 2014
Made
20th October 2014
Laid before Parliament
28th October 2014
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(1)
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 26(4) and 125(7) of the Care Act 2014( 1 ).
Citation, interpretation and commencement
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Care and Support (Personal Budget: Exclusion of Costs) Regulations 2014 and come into force immediately after section 26(4) of the Care Act comes fully into force.
(2) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Care Act 2014 ;
“intermediate care and reablement support services” means care and support or support provided to an adult by a local authority( 2 ) under section 18, 19 or 20 of the Act which—
consists of a programme of care and support or support;
is for a specified period of time; and
has as its purpose the provision of assistance to an adult to enable the adult to maintain or regain the ability needed to live independently in their own home.
Costs excluded from a personal budget
2. —(1) The costs to which paragraph (2) applies are costs which must be excluded from a personal budget( 3 ).
(2) This paragraph applies to the costs to a local authority of meeting needs where it meets those needs by the provision of intermediate care and reablement services if—
(a) by regulations under section 14 of the Act it is not permitted to make a charge for meeting needs by the provision of such services; or
(b) it is permitted to make a charge but nevertheless it does not make a charge to any adult to whom it provides such services.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
Norman Lamb
Minister of State
Department of Health
20th October 2014
2014 c.23 . The powers to make regulations are exercisable by the Secretary of State; see section 125(1) of the Act (“the Act”).
See section 1(4) of the Act for the meaning of “local authority”; the definition is limited to local authorities in England.
See section 26 of the Act for the meaning of “personal budget”.