b'that, in having due regard to the actual costs of care, local authorities were not obliged to follow any particular methodology.Given current funding issues within the residential care sector, including increased labour costs, it would not be a surprise to see the issue of how local authorities set the usual cost of providing residential care returning to the courts at some point in the near future. Regulation 9 of the 2014 Regulations provides that a local authority must carry out a financial assessment of adults under section 17 of the Act in accordance with Parts 3 to 5 of the 2014 Regulations. Regulation 10 sets out the circumstances in which an authority is to be treated as having carried out a financial assessment (light touch assessments), and being satisfied as to whether the financial limit is exceeded. For example, when an adult refuses to co-operate with an assessment or when the authority has an adults consent to carry out an assessment and has evidence available to it on which to decide whether the limit is exceeded or not. Regulation 12 provides that if the capital financial resources of an individual permanently resident in a care home exceeds 23,250 then a local authority is not permitted to pay towards the provision of that accommodation. For non-permanent residents and carers in need of support whose financial resources exceed 23,250, the local authority may (but need not) pay towards the cost of that care and support. Parts 4 and 5 of the 2014 Regulations set out additional guidance on carrying out financial assessments. In addition to powers to charge for care, the 2014 Act allows local authorities to enter into agreements with individual to defer payments due to them for chargeable services under sections 34 and 35, and also provides local authorities with the power to enforce debts due to them in certain circumstances under sections 69 and 70. Local authorities wishing to provide welfare and social services facilities to their inhabitants should check carefully for powers to provide such facilities, especially where they wish to levy a charge for such services. Under the current system of local government there is a mixture of all-purpose (unitary) authorities in some areas and two-tier authorities in other areas. Charges must not be more than it is reasonably practicable for a service user to pay 14.2 With regard to charging for social care-related services, the enabling legislation is now section 14 of the Care Act 2014. The previous enabling provision which permitted local authorities to charge for specified services where this was reasonable, section 17 of the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983, remains partially in force and still permits, for example, local authorities to recover such charges as they consider reasonable for the provision of meals and recreation to older people in their own homes (see section 17(e) and paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 9 to that Act). The CASS Guidance at paragraph 8.2 of Chapter 8 provides that: 145'