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Care Act

Care Act . Making It Real Express Briefing DACHS Shobha Asar-Paul. Big Picture. What’s it about ?. For adult social care to respond to demographic and financial challenges it must help people to stay well and independent. Promote people’s wellbeing

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Care Act

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  1. Care Act Making It Real Express Briefing DACHS Shobha Asar-Paul

  2. Big Picture

  3. What’s it about ? For adult social care to respond to demographic and financial challenges it must help people to stay well and independent. • Promote people’s wellbeing • Enable people to prevent and postpone the need for care and support • Put people in control of their lives so they can pursue opportunities to realise their potential

  4. Headlines • People’s well-being will be at the heart of every decision- an asset based approach. • Carers rights on the same footing as those they care for-a carer's assessment should focus on the impact of caring and on the outcomes they want to achieve. • Preventing and delaying needs for care and support • Personal budgets giving people greater control over their care • The provision of universal information and advice and the market-shaping role are linked to the duty of prevention. • New guarantees to ensure continuity of care

  5. Headlines 1 • Promoting the diversity and quality of the local care market, shaping care and support around what people want • Ensure that no one goes without care if their provider fails • Puts adult safeguarding on a statutory footing for the • first time • Young adults receive care and support during transition • Reforms what and how people pay for their care and support

  6. Funding reforms

  7. Implications/ state of readiness

  8. Key Issues • Potential increase in demand - more people needing care and support; more people needing care and support contacting the Council • Financial impact of the cap on eligible care costs • Financial implications of a new national minimum eligibility • Raising of the means testing threshold • Workforce and culture change- well being principle and assets based approach • Managing expectations

  9. Governance Corp Board HWB Scrutiny Committee

  10. Care Act implementation timeline • Draft regulations and draft statutory guidance published for 3 month consultation (May 2014) • Final regulations and statutory guidance published (October 2014) • Local implementation of new legal framework commences (from April 2015) • Extended financial support/Cap on care costs/Care accounts (From April 2016)

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