When Support Stops: Adult Social Care Duties in NRPF Cases

Introduction

No recourse to public fund (NRPF) issues are situated in the high risk, high confusion corner of community care: urgent need, mixed duties, and front-line refusals framed as an immigration problem.

This live and interactive course provides a clear, lawful pathway through the noise so advice can be given quickly, challenges can be made confidently, and vulnerable adults can be protected where services are wrongly withheld or unlawfully reduced.

The session is designed around what actually works: evidence and framing. You will learn what information to gather at intake (risk, vulnerability, accommodation/care baseline, family network), how to draft a fast, structured challenge when support is refused, and when to escalate beyond complaints into pre-action and urgent relief. The course also explains how to coordinate effectively with immigration specialists while staying within private client/community care scope.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• A practical decision tree for cases involving no recourse to public funds/uncertain status, including how to separate:
• Care Act assessment and support duties
• Human rights minimums
• Charging and accommodation disputes
• Safeguarding overlay where exploitation/coercion may be present
• Recurring real-world patterns: gatekeeping at first contact, ‘we can’t help’ letters, delays disguised as process
• The tension between resource arguments and non-negotiable minimum provision

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.