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A charter for change: reforming care and support for older people, their families and carers
- Author:
- COUNSEL AND CARE
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- London
'A Charter for Change' report provides a radical new framework for social care which government must adopt to meet 'care funding gap'. Informal and private care is plugging a funding gap of £25k for every disabled person over the age of 65 in Britain today. Counsel and Care is calling for 2008 to be the year of the care debate and urges Government to adopt its radical new framework.
Paying for care in Wales: creating a fair and sustainable system: green paper consultation on options for reform
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
In 2008 the Welsh Assembly Government held a major consultation and engagement programme on the general direction that reform of the social care system should take. The results of that consultation have helped to shape the proposals set out in this Green Paper. Reponses are invited to questions on disability benefits, bringing money into the system, different funding options, ways to contribute and whether there should be a nationally or a locally determined funding system.
Personal care at home: a consultation on proposals for regulations and guidance
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document seeks views on the Government’s proposals for requiring councils in England with adult social services responsibilities (CASSRs) to provide personal care free of charge in certain circumstances to people with the highest needs. On 25 November, the Government introduced the Personal Care At Home Bill (“the Bill”) to enable this to happen. The consultation will last until 23rd February 2010, but the Department would welcome earlier responses, by 26th January.
A "gloriously ordinary life": spotlight on adult social care
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Lords. Adult Social Care Committee
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 150
- Place of publication:
- London
In this report, we look at the reasons why adult social care as a whole has been invisible - poorly understood and often neglected by policy makers, the public and the media - and the impact that this has had, in particular, on disabled adults and older people, as well as unpaid carers. We have heard in the powerful and profoundly moving words of many witnesses in different situations, how this has affected them and their hopes and fears for the future. Our report is grounded in this reality. The changes we propose aim to bring increased voice, visibility, independence, choice and control, both to those who draw on care and those who provide it, paid and unpaid - enabling all of us to lead more ordinary, autonomous lives as equal citizens. The report sets out a new approach to adult social care which calls on the Government to commit to a more positive and resilient approach to adult social care based on greater visibility for the whole sector, as well as greater choice and control for disabled adults and older people and a better deal for unpaid carers. Recommendations include: make adult social care a national imperative, including by delivering realistic, predictable and long-term funding and delivering a properly resourced plan for supporting a highly valued workforce; prepare for the future by recognising that more people will be ageing without children and investing in better knowledge and data to inform better policy; ensure people who draw on social care have the same choice and control over their lives as everybody else; caring for unpaid carers by providing easier access to, and an increase in Carer's Allowance, more flexible support for carers who work, including the implementation of Carer's Leave, more support from health and social care professionals to identify them, signpost support, and ensure that they get it. (Edited publisher abstract)
Supported Housing Improvement Programme prospectus
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Place of publication:
- London
This prospectus provides detailed guidance and context that will assist local authorities, both in considering whether and how to bid for the Supported Housing Improvement Programme, and also for those local authorities who go on to participate in the programme. The Programme is an England-wide £20 million funding programme, available over the 3 financial years (2022 to 2025), which draws on the outcomes and good practice from earlier pilots. The Programme requires the establishment of a multi-disciplinary team, bringing together expertise from across the Council, allowing for a holistic approach to improving quality and value for money. The team could comprise members from: housing options/housing need; homelessness/rough sleeping; adult social care including social workers and commissioners; housing enforcement including environmental health; revenues and benefits. Other key activities will include: improving quality and oversight of support; improving quality of accommodation; scrutiny of housing benefit claims; need and supply assessment; strategic planning; and gateway reviews (standardised process to manage new providers or new schemes). (Edited publisher abstract)
ADASS autumn survey 2020
- Author:
- ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 18
- Place of publication:
- London
Findings from the ADASS autumn survey, which was distributed between 22nd October and 13th November 2020. There are 151 local authorities in England with adult social care responsibility. For this survey, there were 101 completed returns. Key messages include: the onset of the pandemic has led to an increase in the number of people presenting with adult social care needs to local authorities, with concerning increases in older and disabled people presenting for domestic abuse and safeguarding and carer breakdown since June 2020; the precarious financial position of adult social care means that Directors confidence in meeting what they have to do in law, which is the cornerstone of meeting basic human rights, continues to diminish year on year; since the onset of Covid-19 the risk of already fragile care markets failing has significantly heightened; adult social care services are facing significant financial pressures in 2020/21, with an overspend of £468m predicted nationally, as a result of the additional need and costs that have emerged as a result of the onset of the pandemic and despite additional funding for Covid-19 from Government. (Edited publisher abstract)
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.
Personal care at home: a consultation on proposals for regulations and guidance: the government response
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document sets out the government’s response to the public consultation Personal Care at Home, which ran from 25 November 2009 to 23 February 2010. The original consultation sought the public’s views on the Government’s proposals for requiring councils in England with adult social services responsitilities (CASSRs) to provide personal care free of charge in certain circumstances to people with the highest needs, as introduced in the Personal Care At Home Bill.
Impact assessment of personal care at home: regulations and guidance
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents the analysis and evidence for the Government’s proposed policy which would require councils in England with adult social services responsibilities (CASSRs) to provide personal care free of charge in certain circumstances to people with the highest needs. It provides a cost-benefit analysis of free personal care at home, and details specific impacts on small firms, health, rural areas, black and minority ethnic groups, people with disabilities, women and older people.
Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) and other adaptations: external review
- Authors:
- MACKINTOSH Shelia, et al
- Publisher:
- University of the West of England
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 292
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This review, commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care, looks at how the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) currently operates and makes evidence based recommendations for how it should change in the future. It review aims to develop more effective ways of supporting more people to live in suitable housing so they can stay independent for longer and makes the case for more joint working across housing, health and social care. The focus of the review is on how the disabled or older person can be put at the centre of service provision and what would make it easier for them to access services. It also looks at the role of DFG in prevention and how it can deliver this more effectively. It draws on a range of evidence, including: analysis of data from LOGASnet returns; consultation events attended by local authorities and home improvement agencies; interviews with staff from selected local authorities; and a short review of the academic, policy and practice literature. The conclusions and recommendations include: renaming the grant to reflect that it is part of a broader set interventions to help people remain independent; improved integration of services; better partnership working between health and care and different professions; raising the upper limit of the grant; and changes to the current formula for allocating funding; and updating of the existing means testing regulations. The review also identifies additional research to be carried out. (Edited publisher abstract)