Question follow-through · 11583

Social Services: Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of local authority charges for social care services on vulnerable unpaid carers.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 29 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 31 Oct 2024
Answer: 6 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of local authority charges for social care services on vulnerable unpaid carers.
31 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Nov 2024
Answer published
Adult social care charging policy is designed to ensure that people who are drawing on care are only charged what they can afford for their care and support. Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are required to deliver a wide range of sustainable, h...

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