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The Care ActReforming care and support
Older People’s Provider Forum
11 February 2015
Vicky Smith, Head of Policy and Strategic Development
Changes from April 2015
• Eligibility and assessment
• Information and Advice, including how to access independent financial advice
• Safeguarding
• Deferred Payments
Information and advice• Every local authority must: “establish and maintain a service
for providing people in its area with information and advice relating to care and support for adults, and support for carers”.
• This does not mean that the local authority should provide all the elements itself. Instead, it should “understand, co-ordinate and make use of” the resources available across the community.
• The system should:
– be coherent
– be aimed at the whole population
– address a range of issues (including financial
advice)
Other changes in April 2015:• Legal duty to ensure smooth transition from children’s to
adults social care services
• A duty to ensure a wide range of good quality care and support services are available
• New protections to ensure that no one goes without care if their provider fails
• New legal right to a personal budget and direct payment
• New responsibilities for provision of care and support in prisons
• Extension of ordinary residence to extra care and supported living
Changes from April 2016:Government consultation - Cap on Care costs and Appeals
The cap on care costs• The Care Act says there should be a maximum
amount anyone should pay towards their care.• Care cost cap - from 2016 there will be:
– Zero cap for life for people up to age of 25 with an eligible care needs
– A cap on care costs of £72,000 for people aged 25 and above with eligible care needs
• The cap won’t count living costs, or any additional payments people choose to make.
• New provision for ‘top ups’
How the cap will work• Government’s consultation provides details about how
the cap will work, including what will count as a care cost.
• ‘Care accounts’ to set out the rate at which a person is progressing towards the cap.
• To apply, people will need to have an assessment to see if they meet the national eligibility threshold
• People who qualify will be given an independent personal budget of the care costs that will ‘count’ towards the cap.
• Guidance asks LAs to work with providers to identify self funders from October 2015
Charging for support• A new legal basis for charging
• A consistent approach to calculating someone’s contribution towards living costs in residential care (not included in the cap)
• The charging threshold for people who get care in their own home increases from £23,250 to £27,000
• The charging threshold for people who get residential care increases from £23,250 to £118,000
More information (2016 consultation)
•https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/care-act-2014-cap-on-care-costs-and-appeals
•Deadline for comments: 30th March 11.45pm
More information (Care Act)• Local, regional and national publicity
• Department of Health factsheets on the Care Act: gov.uk/government/publications/care-act-2014-part-1-factsheets
• National care and support reform implementation programme: local.gov.uk/care-support-reform
• The Care Act in full: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/care.html
• The Care Act in East Sussex: eastsussex.gov.uk/careact [email protected]