Duties of the Care Act for HWBs

Developing the Power of Strong, Inclusive Communities
Think Local Act Personal and Public Health England, October 2014

• A strategy, which can be adapted locally, for how HWBs can work with partners to meet the new wellbeing and prevention duties in the Care Act. 
• How to get started – what Health and Wellbeing Boards can do
• Keep people at the centre and focus on their outcomes
• Focus on both assets and needs 
• Focus on all levels of prevention
• Rethink integration
• Target people with two or more Long Term Conditions 
• Work through universal service providers
• Enable community and cross-sector Systems Leadership
• Develop a new approach to Health and Wellbeing Strategies
• Adopt a collaborative approach to priority setting and savings

Updated Care Act guidance and regulations

Care Act regulations and guidance for local authorities
Department of Health, October 2014

• Including:
• revised regulations  
• Guidance for local authorities 
• Updated Care Act factsheets 
• See materials to help those implementing the Care Act on the Local Government Association’s website

Care Act 2014 Part 1 factsheets - duties and powers of LAs

Care Act 2014 Part 1: factsheets
Department of Health, 6 June 2014(Updated October 2014)

• These factsheets, which accompany Part 1 of the Care Act 2014, provide an overview and the duties and powers local authorities will have in the future.
• Factsheet 1: general responsibilities of local authorities: prevention, information and advice, and shaping the market of care and support services
• Factsheet 2: who is entitled to public care and support?
• Factsheet 3: assessing needs and determining eligibility
• Factsheet 4: personalising care and support planning
• Factsheet 5: charging and financial assessments
• Factsheet 6: reforming how people pay for their care and support
• Factsheet 7: protecting adults from abuse or neglect
• Factsheet 8: the law for carers
• Factsheet 9: continuity of care when moving between areas
• Factsheet 10: market oversight and provider failure
• Factsheet 11: transition for children to adult care and support
• Factsheet 12: prisoners and people in resident in approved premises

Care Bill becomes Care Act 2014

Care Bill becomes Care Act 2014

• The Care Bill was given Royal Assent on May 14th.
• Follow the steps along the way here on the Community Care website. 

Care Act implementation grant

Care Bill implementation grant
NHS England, 4 May 2014

• The Care Bill implementation grant is a new, one off grant  of £125,000 that the Department of Health is making available to support local authorities to implement the Care Bill, (now Care Act) during from May 2014 to 2015.
• The grant determination is accompanied by a memorandum of understanding which explains what the Department of Health expects from recipient local authorities

An overview of adult social care in England

Adult social care in England: overview
National Audit OFfice, 13 March 2014

• The report details increasing pressures on the care system where adults with long-term and multiple health conditions and disabilities are living longer; demand for services is rising while public spending falls; and there is unmet need for care and highlights the increasing pressure on other parts of the care and health systems.
• Part 1 - Rising care needs and falling state spending a description of adults’ care needs, how needs vary and why, projections of need, how care meets adults’ needs, and how care is paid for. 
• Part 2 - Pressures and system redesign (through the Care Bill)
• Appendix A - Local authority spending on adult care services:cost-variance analysis
• Appendix B - Overseeing adult care - responsible organisations
• Appendix C - Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework measures, 2012-13
• Appendix D - Adult social care information sources

New website from LGA - Care and support reform implementation

Care and support reform implementation - new website
LGA, ADASS, DH January 2014

• A new website supported by Local Government Association, Association of Directors and Adult Social Services and Department of Health for CCG leads and others responsible for, or implementing care and support reforms in the context of the other changes and challenges for local health and care systems, including the Better Care Fund.
• Includes an implementation guide, must knows around governance, analysis of the Care Bill clause by clause, an explanation of new IT requirements, and  interactive timeline.

Government's Care bill, fact sheets and glossary

Care Bill announced
DH, 10 May 2013 updated 23 December 2013, 10 January 2014

• The Government’s Care Bill to reform the law relating to care and support for adults, relating to support for carer and provision about safeguarding adults from abuse or neglect has been published.
• The legislation will
• Help people get compassionate care in hospital, in a care home or in the community, by introducing Ofsted-style ratings for hospitals and care homes, making quality as important as finance and strengthening training for staff.
• Join up care by enshrining in law that everyone should have a personal care plan, access to a personal budget and that carers, for the first time, will have a right to get support themselves if they are found to have eligible needs. There will also be a national minimum eligibility threshold across the country.
• Reform the funding of care so no one will have to sell their home in their lifetime, or lose everything they’ve worked for, to pay for the costs of living in a care home. And a cap on care costs and financial support for more people will protect people from catastrophic costs and provide important peace of mind.
• The includes responses to the  Government’s Caring for our future White Paper (2012), the Francis report. It will also strengthen training and education and research regulation.
• The DH has published a number of Care Bill Fact Sheets to accompany the Bill and a Care Bill Glossary