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Implementing Dilnot: just more data or a driver for change? The care funding reforms and initial consultations with IT suppliers
- Author:
- ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES. Information Management Group
- Publisher:
- Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- London
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) calls on government to clarify the situation concerning the rights of care home residents to use online forms on council websites, to see if they qualify for the care accounts being introduced as part of the new Dilnot arrangements for funding social care. This report notes that an estimated additional 0.5 million (mainly older) people will be contacting councils from 2016 for help with their care costs, because of the "Dilnot Cap” on total lifetime costs that anyone will have to pay out of their own pocket. From April 2015, all local authorities will be required to offer deferred payments for care costs. so that no-one will be obliged to sell their home during their lifetime to pay for their residential care .The report found that with one exception, all IT suppliers were at a very early stage of considering the implications of the care funding reforms on their systems. While existing computer systems can be enhanced relatively easily to support the new data requirements, a simple enhancement could miss an opportunity radically to improve local authority computer systems for greater efficiency. The report recommends that: the Department of Health clarify the legal admissibility of online `pre-assessments’; ADASS, with the Local Government Association should recommend processes for handling additional self-funder caseload more efficiently, including an online self-service option; ADASS Information Management Group should assess options for electronic transfer of data; and ADASS IMG should carry out cost-benefit analysis of options for local authorities to obtain verified NHS numbers, (Edited publisher abstract)