Brighton & Hove City Council: the register
Ruling 24 001 331
Folio 240
Finding: Fault found
- Finding recorded by the ombudsman
- Upheld
- Service
- Adult care services: Assessment and care plan
- Council
- Brighton & Hove City Council
- Body
- Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman
- Decided
- Summary
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Ms X complained about the Council’s decision not to include certain disability related expenditure in its financial assessment, meaning she has to pay more for the cost of her care. We found the Council at fault for how it considered whether a private prescription for Ms X could be included as disability related expenditure. The Council agreed to apologise to Ms X and re-consider whether her private prescription could be included as disability related expenditure.
Summary as published by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.
Remedies
Words in quotation marks are quoted from the ombudsman’s decision.
States worked out on 9 October 2026.
The ombudsman publishes no entry for a remedy.
| Ordered | Outcome publishedThe ombudsman publishes no entry for a remedy. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | What was ordered | Deadline | Payment | Date | Entry | Payment |
| 1 | ApologyApologise to Ms X for the way it considered her request for DRE.Deadline as worded: Within one month of my final decision |
Deadline passed 23 October 2024. Outcome not published. | None | No outcome published by the ombudsman | ||
| 2 | Action for the personReconsider whether Ms X’s prescription for medical cannabis could be included as DRE.Deadline as worded: Within one month of my final decision |
Deadline passed 23 October 2024. Outcome not published. | None | No outcome published by the ombudsman | ||
| 3 | Action for the personIf the Council decides it should not include this as DRE, it should write to Ms X setting out its rational and reasons.Deadline as worded: Within one month of my final decision |
Deadline passed 23 October 2024. Outcome not published. | None | No outcome published by the ombudsman | ||
| 4 | Action for the personIf the Council decides it should include this item as DRE, it should backdate this to when Ms X initially asked for it to be included as DRE.Deadline as worded: Within one month of my final decision |
Deadline passed 23 October 2024. Outcome not published. | None | No outcome published by the ombudsman | ||
| Stated payments ordered | None stated | Outcomes published by the ombudsman: none | ||||