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Volume 5 Issue 2
Features
Competition Act 1998
The Impact on Local Authority Social Services Contracting
More on Charging for Section 117
Mental Health Aftercare Services
The September/October 1999 issue of this journal included an article on charging for section 117 services under the Mental Health Act 1983, and gave details of an important High Court decision R v London Borough of Richmond ex parte Watson and related cases.
This article focuses on section 117 and the R v London Borough of Richmond ex parte Watson and related decions 1but this time gives details of a very recent report by the Local Government Ombudsman into an Investigation into Complaint No 98/B/0341 against Wiltshire County Council 14 December 1999. The Ombudsman found maladministration for wrongly charging a woman for her care in a residential home following a period of detention in hospital under section 3 Mental Health Act 1983. He recommended the council to reimburse the £60,000 so far paid
Social Fund Funeral Payments
The need to provide for a decent burial has played an important part in the history of social policy. In the nineteenth century there was a rapid expansion of friendly and burial societies. By 1874, the Prudential alone had over one million policy holders, and the
The British Funeral Service
In the first half of the 20th century funeral directors, or undertakers as they were more commonly known, were to be found almost on every street corner in the larger towns and cities, undertaking duties which were ancillary to other business activities, such as joinering or building. In the late fifties a significant change occurred: chapels of rest were being introduced by more and more funeral firms and relatives no longer had to have the coffin brought into the home or kept at the hospital until the day of the funeral. By the sixties the multitude of urban undertakers was dwindling rapidly, due mainly to the proprietors reaching retirement age with no children to take their businesses and, therefore, no inclination to spend capital on providing chapels of rest. Many other firms continued their joinering work but abandoned the role of undertaker
The Importance of Knowing About the Choice of Accommodation Directions
This article focuses on the National Assistance Act 1948 (Choice of Accommodation) Directions 1992, and the contents of a recent report by the Local Government Ombudsman
