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The cost of free personal care: lessons from Scotland: briefing paper
- Authors:
- SIÔN Cian, TRICKEY Michael
- Publisher:
- Cardiff University
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This paper estimates the costs of introducing free personal care for older adults in Wales, drawing on the experience of Scotland, which introduced free personal and nursing care for older adults in July 2002 (and has since been extended to younger adults). It explores the initial cost and demand estimates in Scotland, how they have compared with the actual expenditure and demand in the years since, and the additional costs to the public purse. The paper then looks at what the possible implications might be for Wales whilst acknowledging that the situation differs from Scotland in key respects. It illustrates the range of spending that might be involved and the factors a more precise estimate would need to consider. Personal care refers to needs such as personal hygiene, continence management, assistance with mobility, dressing, counselling and support. It does not cover other forms of home and community care such as help with housework or day care facilities. The cost of providing free personal care (excluding nursing care) for older people in Scotland in 2017–18 was £480.4 million (residential care: £99.3 million, home care: £381.1 million). This was not all ‘new’ money, some pre-existing provision was already funded through the public purse. Taking a population share (over-65s) of this total gives us a crude estimate for Wales of £305.2 million (residential care: £63.1 million, home care: £242.1 million). But, as well as pre-existing provision in Wales, there are several other factors of which any budgetary projection would need to take account. These include: Wales has already ameliorated some social care costs; the level of demand for care may be proportionately higher in Wales; private provision in Wales may be lower than in Scotland; free personal care could impact entitlements to the Attendance Allowance in Wales. (Edited publisher abstract)
Use of the Court of Protection's welfare jurisdiction by supervisory bodies in England and Wales
- Authors:
- SERIES Lucy, et al
- Publisher:
- Cardiff University
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 27
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This report presents information from local authorities about their involvement in Court of Protection (CoP) welfare cases during 2013-14, the nature of the cases, how long these cases lasted for and how much they cost local authorities. A total of 82 per cent of public authorities responded to a freedom of information request and provided information about their involvement in welfare cases for analysis. The results found: variations in the number cases between individual local authorities that could not be explained by population size alone; there were much lower rates of use of the CoP's welfare jurisdiction in Wales than in England; half of all completed cases reported lasted nine months or longer; and half of all ongoing cases lasted twelve months or longer; and that half of all cases reported in the study were estimated to have cost local authorities £8,881 or more, with the greatest cost for local authorities being the time of in-house legal staff. The report highlights the need to investigate the reasons for the high cost and lengthy duration of CoP proceedings (Edited publisher abstract)
Welfare cases in the Court of Protection: a statistical overview
- Authors:
- SERIES Lucy, et al
- Publishers:
- Nuffield Foundation, Cardiff University. School of Law and Politics
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 107
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This report describes the findings of two statistical studies on the Court of Protection (CoP’s) health, welfare and deprivation of liberty jurisdiction. The first study examined 200 case files held in the CoP’s main registry in London and 51 case files from CoP cases heard by High Court judges in the Royal Courts of Justice. The second study used the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) to ask local authorities and NHS bodies in England and Wales about their involvement in CoP welfare litigation. Both studies relate to the year 2014-15. The report provides data on a wide range of issues, including access to justice, participation of P in welfare cases, transparency, duration of proceedings, cost of proceedings and the future of the Court of Protection. The studies found that unlike its predecessor jurisdiction, in the Family Division of the High Court, most common cases heard under the CoP’s welfare jurisdiction today concern social welfare questions, such as: where a person should live; how they should be cared for; and questions about relationships such as whether contact with particular individuals should be restricted, and whether a person has the mental capacity to consent to sex or marriage. If found that social care professionals and local authorities are now the main users of the CoP’s jurisdiction, not medical professionals and healthcare bodies. The studies also indicate that these cases are more complex, involve more hearings and parties, take longer and cost more, than hearings about medical treatments. (Edited publisher abstract)