Care Home Financial Contributions - Freedom of information requests

Title or Description: Care Home Financial Contributions
FOI Number: 271
Date Received: 16/03/2022
Type of Request: FOI
Request or Question: In the event of admission to a Care Home, in calculating the financial contributions an individual is expected to make towards their care home costs a local authority has the power to apply a discretionary disregard of the value of the property if they consider it reasonable to do so.Please provide the following:Over the past 5 yrs.1. How many applications for the above disregard have been received?
2. How many were successful?
3. What criteria are being applied in deciding whether an application will be successful ?
Response: 1. This is not specifically recorded so cannot be identified. Therefore we refer to S17 of FOI(S)A 2002 and declare that the information is not held.
2. This is not specifically recorded so cannot be identified. Therefore we refer to S17 of FOI(S)A 2002 and declare that the information is not held.
3. Decisions are made in accordance with Scottish Government's Guidance on Charging for Residential Accommodation (CRAG)