Practice Guidance

The Care Act 2014 and ordinary residence

The England flag and the Welsh flag lying next to each other Photo: Oleksii/AdobeStock

Introduction

Explains the law on ordinary residence and looks at how to determine ordinary residence in different contexts: when a person transitions to adults’ services, in Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards cases and when someone is placed in NHS accommodation.

You need to log in to Community Care Inform to view this content. If you have a subscription, please log in here.

Please contact the Community Care Inform helpdesk or phone 020 3915 9444 if you require support or assistance or are unsure if you have a subscription.

If you don’t currently have access, click here to find out more about subscribing to Community Care Inform.