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Partnerships for older people projects (POPP) grant 2006-08: round 1 POPP pilots
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This circular provides guidance to the nineteen council-led partnerships who are being awarded ring-fenced funding from the Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPP) Grant during the financial years 2006/07 and 2007/08 to undertake a POPP pilot scheme.
Performance monitoring and evaluation of services delivered through supporting people grant (SPG): guidance for local authorities
- Author:
- CAPEL Cherry
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
The guidance is written with the intention of promoting and implementing robust monitoring and evaluation across Wales. It acknowledges however, the requirement to balance a cohesive monitoring process with local existing structures. The guidance addresses steady state or ongoing monitoring and evaluation processes designed to test performance. It is not intended to address initial review processes, but is intended to establish service specifications for legacy funded projects.
Guidance to local authorities on the arrangements for the implementation and administration of Supporting People in Wales
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 220p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Supporting People is the new policy and funding framework for support services for people in supported and sheltered accommodation. In April 2003 Supporting People funds for the elderly and those receiving care services were transferred to the local authorities, to be administered by them as Supporting People Grant (SPG). The Welsh Assembly Government currently retains the Supporting People Revenue Grant (SPRG) scheme, which funds all other types of support service.
Supporting People: research into older people's services
- Author:
- TARRANT Alison
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Government
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 63
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Explores the progress being made in response to the Aylward Review recommendation that access to older people’s services provided as part of Supporting People should be based on need and not tenure. The Supporting People Programme provides support to vulnerable individuals who are at risk of losing, or who have lost, their homes or who need housing-related support to retain or regain their independence. The report explores how services are provided for older people through the Supporting People Programme Grant in each of the 22 local authority areas; assesses whether housing-related support services have moved from being based on tenure to being based on need; and examines what else the Welsh Government could do to promote the effective move from tenure to needs based services. The report finds that there is a high level of awareness of the Aylward recommendation among both local authorities and providers. However, there is still frequent ambiguity as to what is intended by the recommendation and the requirements on both local authorities and providers if it is to be met. In some cases it appears that ‘needs-based’ services are felt automatically to meet the terms of the recommendation, even where they are available only to tenants. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social care and health: funding and cost pressure analysis
- Author:
- RANASINGHE Jude
- Publisher:
- LG Futures
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 59
- Place of publication:
- Hockliffe
Maps social care and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) funding to local authority boundaries. The research examines the comparative levels of funding and potential demand and cost pressures for County Council Network members compared to other authority types. It covers older people’s social care funding and demand, NHS and Better Care Fund funding, public health funding and total funding. Key findings include: CCN member councils will see their 65+ population grow by 2 per cent per year until 2020, faster than any other local authority type; CCN member councils receive 44 per cent less cash funding per head compared to the national average, less than London Boroughs (61 per cent) and Metropolitan Boroughs (53 per cent); on average CCN member councils have witnessed the largest reductions in ASC funding (-22.9 per cent) compared to other local authority types, and higher reductions in estimated cash funding (20.1 per cent) than the national average; there is evidence that demand has grown in counties, while it has declined across other parts of England; outside of London, delayed discharges are sufficiently higher in counties than other parts of the sector and are costing local health economies enormous extra costs; there is a projected increase of 14.8 per cent in the number of people in CCN authorities with a limiting long term illness by 2020-21; counties receive significantly less CCG funding (£1.2bn) based on their total population of 25.4 million and national average allocations. In total, it is calculated that CCN member councils receive £1.98bn less combined funding for health and social care when compared to other local authority types. (Edited publisher abstract)
Health and social care in counties: funding, demand and cost pressures. CCN response to independent research
- Author:
- COUNTY COUNCILS NETWORK
- Publisher:
- County Councils Network
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 15
- Place of publication:
- London
This document draws out a summary of the key findings from the LG Futures research and analysis on Social Care and Health: Funding and Cost Pressure Analysis. The study has shown that it is CCN member councils that have witnessed the largest reductions in social care funding, and the formulae is embedding historic funding disparities that could see these disadvantages compounded over the coming years. This document provides the CCN response to the research findings that highlight the funding and demand challenges facing adult social care and health services in counties. Building on the CCN response to the local government finance settlement, it sets out a range of proposals for Government to consider in ensuring that the Spending Review achieves its core ambition of a sustainable health and social care system capable of driving forward an ambitious plan to integrate health and social care by 2020. (Edited publisher abstract)
Adapting for a lifetime: the key role of home improvement agencies in adaptations delivery
- Author:
- RAMSAY Malcolm
- Publisher:
- Foundations
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 44p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Glossop
In Autumn 2007, Foundations, the national body for home improvement agencies, was commissioned to carry out research examining the options for the future delivery of home improvement agency services. This document is one of the resulting reports, and it concerns the role of home improvement agencies in delivering major adaptations. This report examines the effect of recent changes to the Disabled Facilities Grant programme, drawing on research carried out within the home improvement agency sector. It looks at the challenges presented by the complexity of the process, the funding shortages and the lack of partnership working. It describes how home improvement agencies can help local authorities get the most out of DFG budgets and sets out examples of innovation and good practice in delivering major adaptations. It also spells out how adaptations can move from a provider-led to a client-led process. The report concludes by making recommendations for the future development of home improvement agencies in relation to delivering major adaptations.
The potential impact of changes in public funding for residential and nursing-home care in the United Kingdom: the Residential Allowance
- Authors:
- CLARKSON Paul, HUGHES Jane, CHALLIS David
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 25(2), March 2005, pp.159-180.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The pursuit of independence and avoidance of unnecessary care-home admissions are key elements of British government policy for the care of older people. The present government's objective to maintain independence has been compromised by the ‘Residential Allowance’ which, as a component of social security payable to residents in independent-sector homes, could be seen as an incentive to place people in care-homes rather than seek care-at-home. In order to remove this incentive, the government proposed to abolish the allowance and instead transfer resources by a grant to local authorities. This was intended to promote independence by making available funds with which social services departments could support domiciliary care. This paper examines the potential impact of the proposal from the perspective of front line practitioners and managers. Calculations of the proposal's likely effects in five authorities were made from a simulation of their usual decision-making processes. The results, applied to the national picture, showed only a marginal effect of the change upon admissions to care homes. The potential effect of the change in diverting admissions from care homes was seen to be hampered by organisational influences which vary between authorities.
Weathering the winter blues
- Author:
- HOLSTROM Radhika
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Guide, 9, December 2001, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at how councils are preparing to spend government cash from its new 'cash for change' programme aimed at tackling bed blocking.
Public funding for residential and nursing home care: projection of the potential impact of proposals to change the residential allowance in services for older people
- Authors:
- CLARKSON Paul, HUGHES Jane, CHALLIS David
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 18(3), March 2003, pp.211-216.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article investigates the potential effects of a policy change in the funding of UK residential care. The White Paper "Modernising Social Services " outlined plans to change the distribution of the Residential Allowance (RA), payable in support of residents in independent residential or nursing home care, from a component of income support paid direct to establishments to a grant to local authorities. This change was intended to remove the incentive in accessing independent residential care more favourably than local authority care. A further objective was to encourage local authorities to use the grant to support home-based alternatives to residential care. The policy rests on a model in which price signals dictate the choice of care for an older person. By, in effect, raising the price of independent residential and nursing home care, the policy provides an incentive for authorities to seek alternatives to institutional care. The study indicated that wider organisational factors other than price are likely to play a greater role in deciding whether an older person is admitted to care. Changes in public funding alone do not reflect the complexities involved in decision-making concerning the residential placement of older people.