The Community Care, Services for Carers and Children’s Services (Direct Payments) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

These Regulations amend the Community Care, Services for Carers and Children’s Services (Direct Payments) (England) Regulations 2009 (“the Principal Regulations”) so that the local authorities listed in the new Schedule 2A inserted by regulation 4 are not prohibited from making direct payments for the provision of residential accommodation (the provision of which is a regulated activity under Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008) for a period of more than four consecutive weeks in any period of 12 months.