Charging for Meal Preparation

After 3 duff attempts by the Scottish executive to give us advice that would have meant we could charge for meal preparation as part of the otherwise excellent free personal care package , we now have QC's advice that we can’t. Clearly the ministers intention and the civil service drafters of legislation were not singing from the same song sheet. Its going to cost us around £1m a year and over £2m in back payments but frankly its the right thing to do. Its a real pain that we have been let down by the Executive in this way but I refuse to end up in court with a case over some wee pensioner who just needs looked after and not caught in some expensive legal battle over who pays for her dinner to get cooked. Only the lawyers win in these cases.