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No pain, plenty of gain
- Author:
- DUNNING Jeremy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.9.10, 2010, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Hertfordshire Council has engaged professional services consultancy OLM to review and reduce the costs of its long-term residential placements. This has resulted in savings of £2.5M a year, expected to rise to £7.3m by the end of 2011. The Council insists that there has been no change in quantity or quality of care, and this is supported by Hertfordshire Local Involvement Network which represents service users.
Implementing the service principles and service responses grant
- Author:
- WALTERS Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 78, Autumn 2005, pp.17-19.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
The funding from the Welsh Assembly Governments Service Principle and Service Responses guidance has been allocated. Areas highlighted by the strategy development process for further development included: person centred planning; advocacy; information provision; direct payments; partnership in planning; workforce planning and training; modernising day services and employment; children and families; parents and carers; general health; and complex needs. This article looks at how eight local authorities will be spending their funding in the area of learning disabilities.
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.
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.
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.
Getting to grips with commissioning for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP. Social Care Programme
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Councils and the NHS in England together spend around £5 billion on care and support for people with learning disabilities. In 2005-06, three-quarters of councils reported facing significant cost pressures in services for adults with learning disabilities, with a combined budget overspend estimated to be over £80 million. Spending continues to rise faster than inflation. The main reasons for this growth are demographic change and the continued reliance on building-based services to meet the bulk of demand. More people need support and the complexity of their needs is increasing. Around 70% of the money councils spend on social care for adults with learning disabilities is used to buy residential, nursing care or day care services. The share used by residential and nursing care homes remains around 50%. This ties councils into long-term commitments to pay for care that is expensive and cannot easily be changed as a person’s needs change. There is limited information available about customer satisfaction and the outcomes being achieved. However, inevitably even the best residential services offer less choice and control than living in a home of your own. There is only limited scope for achieving better value for money within the current system of commissioning. Many councils have already tightened eligibility criteria, but spending continues to increase. Benchmarking the costs of residential services can give useful short-term savings, but in the longer term rising demand is likely to push up prices.
Valuing people priorities squeezed by other social care commitments
- Author:
- JERROM Clare
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.06.03, 2003, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at councils needs for more resources if they are to provide adequate services for people with learning difficulties and fulfil the aims of the Valuing People strategy. Also discusses the effectiveness of the learning disability partnership boards.
Is the money following the clients with learning disabilities?
- Authors:
- GLOVER Gyles R., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 10.4.93, 1993, pp.987-990.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Analysis of the data that is available suggests that money transferred to local authorities for people with learning disabilities moved from long term residential care to community in the form of joint finance and dowries, does not appear to cover the costs to local authorities of providing community care services.
Local support for people with a learning disability: fifty-eighth report of session 2016-17
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 64
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of the Public Accounts Committee which looks at progress in moving people with a learning disability out of mental health hospitals through the Transforming Care programme and providing support for people to live in the community instead. The Committee took evidence from the Department of Health, NHS England, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, and three charities about local support for people with a learning disability. It found that although some progress has been made, more needs to be done to address known barriers. It reports that that money is not moving with the patient to pay for support in the community, too many people with learning disabilities are not having care and treatment reviews, and that proposed changes to local housing allowance risk holding back provision of accommodation in the community. It also found significant local variation in the support available for people with learning disabilities in the community, including in access to health care and employment. The report makes six recommendations, including to set up a cross-government strategy for learning disabilities to improve their access to health care and opportunities to participate in the community. (Edited publisher abstract)