National Children and Adult Services Conference

A Guide to Getting Ready for Implementation of the Care Act 2015/16

David Pearson President of the Association of Directors of Adult

Social Services (ADASS)

Corporate Director, Adult Social Care, Health and Public Protection, Nottinghamshire County

Council

Money – 2015/16

• Eligibility• Carers• Deferred Payments• Early assessments • Law reforms

Are we Ready?• Overall it is a positive picture• 97% of councils say that they are very or fairly

confident that they will be able to deliver the Care Act Reforms from April 2015.

• Confidence has increased on all measures from Stocktake 1 to Stocktake 2, except costs

• However, there are some challenges and areas of concern

• Concerns about the total costs have increased - 55% report this as the biggest risk

Support Required

• IT • Workforce • Information and advice • Carers• Market shaping

Other issues Assessment and eligibility Communications and

engagement Providers and partners Social care in prisons Consultation on local policy

General Support• Implementation support products commissioned in the

summer will be available from the end of October• Earlier and prompt information based on ‘engaging in

the debate’ rather than being centrally decision led sharing

• Greater use of regional infrastructure to deliver support. £4m package to regions

• Change in the focus of implementation support to be sector-led, needs to be agile, in-depth and delivered at pace based around the support priorities identified in the stocktake

• From April 2015 change from implementation support for Part 1 changes to embedding these changes

Support• Bespoke support• Continued engagement with the authorities

identified in the stocktakes• Peer to peer support brokered through TEASC• Bespoke peer challenge offer when requested or

agreed necessary Aligned support• Use TEASC protocols to align Care Act, Better

Care Fund, Health and Wellbeing support offers to individual authorities across where required

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