Hi Winston, I was surprised that there was so little (no) feedback, but my contribution was only to assist people if they needed it.
The official answer to your question was, Frank’s Law officially came into effect, on the 1st April 2019 and that was never meant to be an April Fool stunt carried out by the Scottish Government.
As to when each council on an individual bases, carried it out, I honestly do not know, but any new applications should have been based on Frank’s Law and any existing SDS claimants, should have been reassessed in the following 6 months.
However, at a Self Directed Support Network, South Lanarkshire meeting today, I was told that the Scottish Government was already enlightened by a disabled body, that there could be a loophole, which consequently was borne out to happen, that enabled councils in Scotland, to be able to simply police their own policy or totally opt out like South Ayrshire council.
So the answer, unfortunately is that the Scottish Government have accepted their own Act, all be it knowing fine well that it was flawed, which was pointed out by another disabled body, who were on their consolation committee. It has never the less come into effect on the 1st April 2019. however it is up to local councils to get through their own list of SDS claimants. But they should re-pay the back money that they should never have charged since 1st April 2019, as said previously,
Unfortunately due to the loop hall, it is no longer clear how disabled people in Scotland can no longer expect to be charged for their higher personal care.