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Care Act Implementation Workshop: Improving Lives in Dudley Borough

Join us for a workshop on the Care Act, focusing on promoting well-being, preventing care needs, and empowering individuals. Learn about key duties, funding reforms, and the impact on Dudley. Share your thoughts, concerns, and ideas to enhance the Care Act's impact on people's lives.

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Care Act Implementation Workshop: Improving Lives in Dudley Borough

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  1. Care Act Shobha Asar-Paul Dudley MBC

  2. Programme 9:45 - 10:15 Registration 10:15  Introduction and overview of Care Act 10.30  Workshop Specific Presentation  10:50  Discussion /Workshop 11:40 Feedback 12.00 Sandwich lunch

  3. Big Picture

  4. 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

  5. Key duties • Prevention • Integration • Information and Advice • Diverse markets

  6. 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. • NHS and Care services becoming more integrated • Preventing and delaying needs for care and support • National threshold for eligibiity • Quality information and advice to help people navigate complex systems and support choice and control • Universal Deferred Payment scheme from April 2015

  7. Headlines 1 • Promoting the diversity and quality of the local care market, shaping care and support around what people want • Puts adult safeguarding on a statutory footing for the • first time • Young adults receive care and support during transition to adult care services • Reforms what and how people pay for their care and support- cap on care. • Most financial support for those with greatest care needs and least in savings/assets.

  8. Funding reforms- from 2016 • £72,000 cap on care costs • Zero cap if disabled from childhood • Cap does not cover board and lodgings nor any care costs above the rate the Council would pay. • Those with £118,000 or less in 16/17 will get financial help for residential care.

  9. Our approach • The implementation of the Customer Journey in line with the principles of the Care Act- wellbeing, support and prevention embedded throughout the Customer Journey; • the Better Care Fund and integrating services. The schemes associated with the BCF again are completely linked to Care Act requirements and local Health and Wellbeing priorities. • Care Act demand modelling to understand implications on resources etc • Training for social care staff. • Outcomes of discussions will further inform the implementation.

  10. Implications for Dudley • Advice and information for self- funders; on funding reforms • Impact on providers: transparency; choice and diversity • Projected increase in demand for assessments and reviews- carers, self funders • Impact on capacity, workforce, finance-potential increase in demand

  11. Next steps • Elected member workshop in Nov/Dec • Modelling using national tools and resources to forecast demand and costs • Final guidance and regulations • Skills for Care and Department of Health resources

  12. Care Act implementation timeline • Final regulations and statutory guidance published (October 2014) • Implementation of new legal framework commences (from April 2015) • Financial support/Cap on care costs/Care accounts (From April 2016)

  13. Workshop questions • Your thoughts…  Your concerns & what opportunities can you see with the introduction of the Care Act? • Moving forward… What needs to be put in place for the Care Act to really improve people’s lives in Dudley Borough?

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