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The cost of the cuts: a social impact tool for local authorities: user guide
- Authors:
- HASTINGS Annette, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- York
This user guide introduces a social impact tool which can help councils assess how their saving plans impact on different service users. As the budget pressures under which local government operates intensify, councils are continually looking at how they can generate savings. The tool can help: produce a robust assessment of the implications of savings plans for service user groups experiencing varying levels of socio-economic deprivation; analyse the extent to which distinctive population and service user groups experience different levels of cumulative service change; track change over time in the social impact of savings; conduct scenario planning or options appraisal; encourage informed debate about the differential impact of savings; and benchmark results against those of other local authorities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Shaping public spending priorities for adult social care
- Authors:
- SMITH Chloe, CAVILL: Matt
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- York
The aim of this research was to identify key issues faced by the social care sector and to explore how those involved in planning and providing adult social care are thinking about and adapting to current challenges, including budgetary pressures. The study involved a series of in-depth interviews with key figures working in the adult social care sector from local authorities and organisations of, or representing, service users and/or carers. This report presents and discusses findings and key themes from the study, including concerns about the future, priorities for spending, engaging service users and carers, and future needs. All of the stakeholders interviewed spontaneously identified budgetary pressures as the biggest challenge currently facing the sector. With regard to priorities for spending following the Comprehensive Spending Review, the main themes that emerged were statutory provision, rationing demand, and long-term prevention. Stakeholders felt that ongoing consultation with service users would continue, but that choices would be limited by the budgetary pressures. The study revealed a range of perspectives and concluded that there was currently much trepidation and uncertainty in the adult social care sector.
Shaping public spending priorities for adult social care
- Authors:
- SMITH Chloe, CAVILL Matt
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This study investigates some of the key issues currently confronting those involved in planning and providing adult social care at a time of budgetary pressure. Through a series of interviews with senior figures from local authorities and service user/carer organisations, which invited people to share their perceptions about the future, a number of challenges and opportunities were identified. Areas discussed were: priorities for spending, making the right decisions, and service user involvement. Many of those interviewed had concerns about making the right decisions to enable them to provide the right quality and range of care in the future.
A funding settlement that works for people, not services
- Authors:
- STONE Emma, WOOD Claudia
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 9p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This paper was written in advance of the Comprehensive Spending Review in October 2010 and the coalition Government's new vision for social care, expected in early November. It is hoped that together these will form the foundations of a permanent settlement for how we all will contribute towards our care in later life and the system that delivers it. The paper considers the question regarding whether the proposed funding settlement and statute will be aligned with each other, and, critically, with a vision for social care that is designed around people’s lives, rather than around services. It argues that only a funding system acceptable in principle and in practice to those who contribute to it will survive over time. It considers four key principles for a future funding settlement, arguing that it should be: fair; transparent; sustainable; and capable of supporting self-defined outcomes. The importance of an outcome-based funding system, which is compatible with how people live their lives, and what they want and value from life, is discussed. The paper considers what a settlement enshrining these principles would look like. It concludes by examining the challenges of an outcome-based model.
Funding care: can each generation pay its fair share?
- Authors:
- HIRSCH Donald, SPIERS Philip
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- York
There is now wide agreement, accepted by government, that the present system of paying for care needs replacing. The big sticking point is finding extra funding which both covers the growing needs of an ageing population and shares the cost fairly between generations. A new settlement needs to be fair, transparent and sustainable. This viewpoint proposes a two-track approach where each generation contributes to the costs of its own care in later life. Today’s older people have not put aside funds to cover these costs, but have built up other assets. A first part of the Care Levy taxing these assets at a modest rate on inheritance could meet the funding gap in caring for this generation. Younger people could start to build up funds through additional National Insurance contributions as part of the Care Levy. Each successive age cohort would have the inheritance part of the levy reduced to reflect this, with people aged 30 or less when the scheme was introduced having no levy on inheritance. In addition to these 2 parts of the Care Levy, funding could also come from general taxation and small charges to users. Such a broad sharing of costs among different generations, linked to ability to pay, could be presented as a fair and equitable settlement.
Funding social care: what service users say
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 11p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
The views of a diverse range of social care service users on current proposals for funding social care are presented. The National Service User 2009 consultation, which involved a diverse range of older and working age people from different parts of the UK was reported in the government’s 2009 Green Paper ‘Shaping the Future of Care Together’ and is frequently quoted in this report. With sections entitled, ‘the demand for social care’, ‘options for funding social care – the three government options’, ‘failure to ensure equity and independent living’, ‘strong support for universal disability benefits’, ‘social care and health’, ‘funding social care through general taxation’, ‘complexities of funding’, ‘the value base of the Green Paper’, ‘new funding proposals’ (Labour/Conservative), and ‘next steps - securing funding for social care, the importance of improved public debate and supporting service user involvement in the debate’, this paper addresses how social care can meet the expected increase in demand, especially from older people, how a fair, sustainable and high quality service should be funded and how care should be delivered.
Identifying a fairer system for funding adult social care
- Authors:
- KEEN Justin, BELL David
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 11p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This briefing sets out a framework for identifying a fairer system of adult social care. It discusses five key questions that form a framework for identifying a fairer system. What is the scope of the reform programme? What is to be distributed? What distributive principle should be used? What are the priorities? and Who are the loosers in the care lottery? It then uses these questions evaluate the Green Paper Shaping the future of care together. This analysis shows that the Paper represents an advance on previous government statements on adult social care, but lacks important detail, particularly on funding options.
Options for care funding: what could be done now?
- Author:
- COLLINS Sue
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This overview draws on JRF’s research from its ‘Paying for long-term care’ programme to examine other funding alternatives and improvements to the current system. It also draws on the practical experience of the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust care services to provide innovative examples from practice.
Rethinking social care and support: What can England learn from other countries?
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Draws on the experiences of other countries and sets out a number of principles that should underpin reform of care and support arrangements in England. The paper summarises some of the key features of social care; these features are important in determining the appropriate balance between collective, welfare state responsibilities and individual or market responsibilities for social care; spells out a number of principles that should underpin the funding and organisation of social care and support in England, illustrated with lessons and examples from other countries.
Movement of households in shared-ownership housing in the UK
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This research examines the ability of people in low-cost shared-ownership housing schemes to move within the sector, and out of it, as their aspirations or needs change. People in shared ownership schemes (shared owners) move less frequently than social or private sector tenants or people buying their home with a mortgage. Some shared owners are able to move on due to improvements in their financial position but many remain unable to afford a mortgage on a whole property