Challenging a local authority on procedural grounds can prove difficult, as Tim Spencer-Lane reports
In 2012, the council adopted a policy under which the amount of money that is provided to support a disabled person living in the community would be based on the costs of meeting the same person’s needs in residential care. It was a policy which the council had already applied since 2008 to older people. Disabled groups argued that it would result in high levels of unmet need and coercive institutionalisation, because domiciliary care could not be provided which costs less than the equivalent costs of residential care. It was also contended that, in adopting the policy, the