Clause 4 - Liability to make delayed discharge payments
Community Care (Delayed Discharge etc.) Bill
5:15 pm
Mr Hilton Dawson (Lancaster and Wyre, Labour)
I would expect the social services department not to be fined but to pay for that person's care. That seems to be reasonable. It would not only be a commonsense version of the way in which the contract would operate, but focus the minds, the ingenuity and the co-operative efforts of all elements of the social care system involved. The money coming from social services departments will not be lost to the system; it will remain in the system to pay for the care of such people.