Operational Policy and Guidelines 2024/25 (updated 18 November 2024)
This guidance is to support Needs Assessment Service Coordination (NASC) and EGL sites to keep spending within their indicative budgets (NASCs) and fixed budgets Enabling Good Lives (EGL) sites.
It also sets out the situations when decisions on support packages must be referred to a Review Panel.
It provides a nationally consistent approach to staying within budgets, and can be applied by NASCs and EGL sites, while implementing a freeze at current levels of funding for facility-based care for 2024/25 pending commissioning and completion of a detailed review of the contract and pricing models.