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The impact of devolution: long-term care provision in the UK
- Author:
- BELL David
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 41p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report on long-term care provision policies, from a series on the impact of 10 years devolved government in the United Kingdom, considers the constraint that tax and benefit structure (control of which remains centrally within the Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) system), has on Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England. The importance of having secondary social care, funded from Annually Managed Expenditure by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and less bound to annual budgets than DEL, in minimising diversity of delivered care is discussed. The inability of devolved governments to steer DWP, due to weak intergovernmental relations, is highlighted and in section 2 Scottish attendance allowances and Welsh domiciliary care charges are contrasted. Section 3 details demand for care varies more within countries than between them, while section 4 highlights divergence in older people’s ability to pay. A current snapshot of care provision across the UK in section 5, is followed by a focus on free personal care, personalisation and charging in Section 6. Section 7 reiterates that policies can be constrained as well as enhanced by devolution. Other reports, in this series, detail area based regeneration, indicators of poverty and social exclusion, employment and employability and housing and homelessness.
Financial care models in Scotland and the UK
- Authors:
- BELL David, BOWES Alison
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 106p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The study begins by outlining current care policy for older people in the UK, and the development and context of free personal care in Scotland. It then explores the Scottish situation and finds that the similarities are sufficiently strong to argue that Scotland is a good exemplar for social care policies elsewhere in Great Britain. The practical problems encountered in Scotland during its introduction are assessed in detail, from the point of view of both the suppliers of care, and the older people themselves. Looking forward, the authors identify key threats to the sustainability of the Scottish policy and conclude by reviewing the wider lessons for the UK as a whole in designing policies to care for older people.
Informal care of the elderly in Scotland and the UK
- Authors:
- LEONTARIDI Rannia, BELL David
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
"This paper assesses some of the evidence on informal care for the elderly both in Scotland and in the rest of the UK. It uses a number of data sources, such as the Family Resources Survey, the British Household Panel Survey and the Scottish Household Survey and was undertaken to inform the thinking of the Care Development Group."