Children?s and Adult Services Grants Programme - Carers Grant

The Care Act 2014 builds on recent reviews and reforms, replacing numerous previous laws, to provide a coherent approach to adult social care in England. Part one of the Act (and its Statutory Guidance) consolidates and modernises the framework of care and support law; it set out new duties for local authorities and partners, and new rights for service users and carers. A carer is someone who provides unpaid care to an individual living in the community. Normally this will be a person who is looking after an adult...