Adult Social Care Contributions Policy 2024 - 2. Assessed contribution principles

In order to comply with the requirements of the Care Act 2014, this policy seeks:

• To be comprehensive and to reduce variation in assessment and charge;
• To be clear, transparent and applied equally;
• To promote wellbeing, social inclusion and supports the vision of personalisation, independence, choice and control;
• To be focused, reflecting the variety of care and caring journeys and the variety of options available to meet their needs;
• To enable and encourage those who wish to stay in/take up employment, education or training is sustainable for local authorities. 

The Council adopts the following over-arching principles to ensure the correct contributions from adults:

• Contributions from adults will be fair, reasonable and calculated with their input through an individual financial assessment.
• The Council will ensure that the financial assessment process provides adults with sufficient funds to cover basic needs such as food and housing costs.
• The vulnerability of adults and their personal circumstances will always be taken account of in regard to the application of the policy and the pursual of debt.