FACS Band
Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) Eligibility Banding Assessment is an eligibility framework that is best described within the document "Prioritising need in the context of Putting People First: A whole system approach to eligibility for social care"
To date these guidelines still hold true and are therefore supported in this message.
The Level of Need can be classified and described as:
Critical: serious risks to someone's independence, which are likely to occur within 72 hours.
Substantial: significant risks to someone's independence, which are likely to occur within between 72 hours and six weeks.
Moderate: some risks to someone's independence, which are likely to occur within between six weeks and six months.
Low: one or two risks to someone's independence, which are likely to occur after six months.
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The Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) framework was introduced in 2003 to address inconsistencies across the country about who gets support, in order to provide a fairer and more transparent system for the allocation of social care services.
The principle behind FACS was that there should be one single process to determine eligibility for social care support, based on risks to independence over time. Its aim was to provide a framework to enable councils to stratify need for social care support in a way that is fair and proportionate to the impact it will have on individuals and the wider community, taking into account local budgetary considerations. Despite significant developments in social care policy since 2003, in this respect the original principles guiding the FACS framework still very much hold firm.
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