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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.
Community care statistics 2008-09: social services activity report, England
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- National Health Service. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 78p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report collates data on the social care activity of Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) in England. Information is drawn from two sources, the Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care (RAP) and the new Adult Social Care Combined Activity Return (ASC-CAR). This report is new for 2008-09 and replaces a number of reports based on separate data collections that were published previously. The data is reported under the following headings: access to care; packages of care; community based services; residential care; and carers. An estimated 2.04 million contacts from new clients were made to CASSRs in England in 2008-09, down 1% from the previous year. There were an estimated 1.78 million clients receiving services, a slight increase from 2007-08. Overall 1.54 million clients were receiving home care of various kinds. Most services were received by clients with physical disabilities, frailty or sensory impairment (72%) the remaining 18% had mental heath problems; 86,000 adults aged over 18 received direct payments. Since 2003 there has been a steady decline in the number of residents supported in care homes; 229,000 in 2008-09. During the year 398,000 carers received a carer’s assessment or review.