What types of refurbishment will not meet the criteria? A: The parts of a Significant Refurbishment project which are not considered to provide benefits to care recipients include: administrative areas; vehicle garaging areas; and areas for storing cleaning and or maintenance products or equipment for use either internally or externally. As a guide, the costs of refurbishments to these areas should comprise not more than 10 per cent of the total cost of the Significant Refurbishment. However, this would not preclude approval being given where the cost of these areas exceed this guide but the significance and amount of the changes and expenditure to areas that benefit residents and supported residents meet the rest of the significant refurbishment criteria. Refurbishment works that only improve the above types of areas of a residential care service would not meet the requirements in paragraph 22A.8(3)(c). Building work, for example, painting, electrical, plumbing, tiling, finishing etc., can be included within a refurbishment project, where the project plan and documentation demonstrates that this building work is part of the significant refurbishment (rather than normal maintenance). Paragraph 22A.8(6) sets out that a significant refurbishment project that only includes work that would normally be of a maintenance nature, would not be approved. Approved providers of residential care should not withhold required building maintenance activity pending approval for Significant Refurbishment projects. What are the monetary thresholds I need to meet? A: Paragraph 22A.8(3)(h) requires that the refurbishment meets a minimum monetary value. This value will apply regardless of the types of improvements involved or the proportion of rooms that are required to be involved. This is a simple objective test which will be met if the cost of the refurbishment meets or exceeds the amount calculated under the formula. The prescribed minimum monetary value would be determined by calculating: 40 per cent of the operational places in the facility and multiplying that number by
What types of refurbishment will not meet the criteria? A: The parts of a Significant Refurbishment project which are not considered to provide benefits to care recipients include: administrative areas; vehicle garaging areas; and areas for storing cleaning and or maintenance products or equipment for use either internally or externally. As a guide, the costs of refurbishments to these areas should comprise not more than 10 per cent of the total cost of the Significant Refurbishment. However, this would not preclude approval being given where the cost of these areas exceed this guide but the significance and amount of the changes and expenditure to areas that benefit residents and supported residents meet the rest of the significant refurbishment criteria. Refurbishment works that only improve the above types of areas of a residential care service would not meet the requirements in paragraph 22A.8(3)(c). Building work, for example, painting, electrical, plumbing, tiling, finishing etc., can be included within a refurbishment project, where the project plan and documentation demonstrates that this building work is part of the significant refurbishment (rather than normal maintenance). Paragraph 22A.8(6) sets out that a significant refurbishment project that only includes work that would normally be of a maintenance nature, would not be approved. Approved providers of residential care should not withhold required building maintenance activity pending approval for Significant Refurbishment projects. What are the monetary thresholds I need to meet? A: Paragraph 22A.8(3)(h) requires that the refurbishment meets a minimum monetary value. This value will apply regardless of the types of improvements involved or the proportion of rooms that are required to be involved. This is a simple objective test which will be met if the cost of the refurbishment meets or exceeds the amount calculated under the formula. The prescribed minimum monetary value would be determined by calculating: 40 per cent of the operational places in the facility and multiplying that number by
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