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Social care in crisis: the need for reform: the Learning Disability Coalition annual survey 2012
- Authors:
- SULLY Anthea, BOWEN Rachel
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Coalition
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research suggests that, despite the best intentions of local authorities and providers to manage the situation by making efficiency savings, the consistent message is of a struggle to maintain services and people receiving insufficient support, making it a challenge for people with a learning disability to live the lives they want to lead. Respondents included 46% of social care providing local authorities, 312 people with learning disabilities, their families and carers, and 61 service providing organisations from a wide geographic area. Findings revealed that 77% of local authorities were facing difficulties in funding services for people with learning disabilities and were making cuts to services. Seventeen per cent of people with learning disabilities had seen a reduction in their number of hours of support and 13% had been given less money to spend on their support. Also, 90% of service providers described the funding situation for support for people with learning disabilities as difficult, with 72% saying that funding for their services from local authorities had been cut over the last year.
Community integration project: one year on ...
- Author:
- WILLOWBANK COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Willowbank Community Resource Centre
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- Dungannon
In March 2010, Willowbank Community Resource Centre were successful in receiving £228,580 from BIG Lottery Reaching Communities Programme to deliver a 5 year Community Integration programme designed for and by people with disabilities. The BIG funding has benefited local people in many ways through a variety of personal development and learning opportunities which have improving people’s skills, abilities and confidence. These opportunities have included learning computing skills, training in local democracy, and a group trip to the theatre. The participants have produced this ‘one year on’ booklet which showcases some of the work the BIG funding has supported. The booklet also records at a personal level the impact that BIG funding has had locally for participants and how much it has meant to them.
Independence - at a price
- Author:
- GARBODEN Molly
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.11.11, 2011, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Cuts in benefits, local housing allowance and housing benefit can limit the availability of supported living for people with learning disabilities. This article stresses the importance of people being able to choose supported living in an area familiar to them and close to their existing social networks. It also highlights the need for funding. A short case study illustrates the benefits of supported living for people with learning disabilities.
A summary of the consultation on changes to the allocation formulae for the learning disabilities commissioning transfer grant preserved rights grant and AIDS support grant
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document provides a summary of responses from the consultation on the allocation formulae for the 3 social care grants: Learning Disabilities Transfer Grant; the Preserved Rights Grant; and the AIDS Support Grant. The consultation paper set out potential options for allocation of each of the 3 social care grants from 1st April 2011. Respondents were invited to state their preferred options, and were also encouraged to provide comments or suggest alternative allocation options. Respondents were also asked to check the data held by the Department which was used to calculate 2 of the options. The consultation did not prejudge the outcome of the Spending Review, which considered the future form of the grants. The consultation ran from 27 July 2010 to 6 October 2010. In total, 157 responses to the consultation were received from a wide range of organisations and individuals including local authorities; NHS bodies; care trusts; and voluntary and independent sector organisations and user led organisations. The document summarises the responses received from the consultation in relation to each of the 3 grants, and the Governments response for each grant.
Thinking big, aiming high
- Author:
- BERKELEY Viv
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 21(5), January 2010, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
This article outlines the themes raised at the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) annual disability conference. Concerns over funding, teacher training, partnership working and employment were raised, with delegates clear that flexible funding systems were necessary to empower providers to be more creative with what constitutes success. Delegates felt that simply funding qualification-driven provision would restrict providers in providing adequate services. The article highlights the difficulties in finding employment opportunities for disabled people, calling for a series of policy driven action that would enable better prospects in the future. It examines the role of further education in supporting disabled people into work, noting the ‘learning is a route into earning’. The article concludes by suggesting that having expectations and aspirations is vital to disabled people, and that providers and local government need to work in partnership to overcome the difficulties imposed by the current funding cuts.
The social care shortfall
- Author:
- COLE Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, January 2009, pp.16-19.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Later this year the government is expected to announce its proposals for a shake-up of the way social care in England is organised and funded with the green paper on adult social care. Discusses fears that with rising demand for adult learning disability services, the gap between aspirations and the funding available will only widen.
Funding for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities in school and post-school provision: an integrated approach
- Authors:
- FARADAY Sally, et al
- Publisher:
- Learning and Skills Network
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 118p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report summarises the aims, findings, conclusions and recommendations of research projects carried out by the Learning and Skills Network (LSN) for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) between September 2006 and April 2007. The purpose of the projects was to assist the LSC to develop a more consistent and equitable approach to the funding of provision for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.
Beset by obstacles: a review of Australian policy development to support ageing in place for people with intellectual disability
- Author:
- BIGBY Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 33(1), March 2008, pp.76-86.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Australian government policy regards people with intellectual disability (ID) as citizens with equal rights, which means that they should have access to the same opportunities as the wider community. Ageing in place is central to aged care policy in Australia for the general population. This paper reviews policy to support the provision of similar opportunities to age in place for people with ID, and the reasons for its slow development. Due to lifestyle patterns earlier in the life course, many people with ID experience a mid-life disruption to their accommodation, and may live in a group home as they age or may move prematurely to residential aged care. The absence of mechanisms to adjust disability funding as needs change, and the existence of policy that denies residents in group homes access to community-based aged care, forces disability services to “go it alone” to support ageing in place. Despite a national priority to improve the interface between the disability and aged care sectors, administrative and funding characteristics continue to obstruct the development of implementation strategies to support ageing in place for people with ID, which remain at the stage of an exploration of the issues.
State-designated special needs, post-adoption support, and state fiscal stress
- Author:
- HANSEN Mary Eschelbach
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 29(11), November 2007, pp.1411-1425.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
The United States Adoption and Safe Families Act of 2007 and its 2003 reauthorization offered bonuses to states that provide more children waiting in foster care with permanent families through adoption. Under ASFA, a majority of states increased the generosity of post-adoption financial support. Moreover, states increased the number and proportion of adopted children that received adoption assistance because the child had a special need. Administrative data indicate that states more diligently recorded the special needs of children, which was necessary to support increases in state requests for federal reimbursements and performance bonuses.
Caught in a bureaucratic nightmare
- Author:
- BLUNDEN Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 21(1), 2007, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author highlights the plight of disabled people prevented from moving home because of funding disputes between authorities around 'ordinary residence'. It highlights recommendations from a recent research report for the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group and includes a case study.