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Carers Bill Short Breaks

Shared Care Scotland Lead Officer Network Workshop 05 June 2015 Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Edinburgh

Moira Oliphant Carers Policy, Scottish Government

key definitions

• removal of regular and substantial test
• removal of requirement that cared-for person must access community

care services

• exclusion of parents, paid carers and volunteers
• power to make regulations to include contracted carers

adult carer support plans

• personal outcomes
• identified needs (if any)/support (if any) to be provided
• impact of caring on carer’s wellbeing
• able and willing
• support for carer
• review of plan – circumstances
• regulations – review (eg discharge from hospital)

young carer statements

• as for adult carer support plan +
• appropriateness of care
• information in YCS to named person
• child’s plan (wellbeing need requiring targeted intervention)

Information and Advice

• establish and maintain information and advice service
• rights
• income maximisation
• education and training
• advocacy
• health and wellbeing
• short breaks services statements

Duty to provide support

• identified needs not met by general services
• if needs are eligible needs
• meet local eligibility criteria
• provide support (must and may)
• must consider in particular whether support should take form
• f or include a break from caring

Eligibility Criteria

• set local eligibility criteria
• consult with carers and carers’ organisations
• have regard to matters specified in regulations by Ministers
• publish criteria
• review of criteria: (a) revised criteria or (b) publish statement
• national eligibility criteria (reserve power)

Local Carer Strategies

• duty to prepare local carer strategy
• plans for identifying carers
• demand for support
• unmet demand
• timescales for preparing ACSPs and YCSs
• needs and circumstances of young carers
• consultation
• publication

Carer Involvement

• strategic level - Public Bodies Act – strategic planning groups,

integration joint boards

• Bill – areas outwith scope of integration
• individual level – ACSPs, YCSs, services to cared-for persons
• general principles in SDS Act – ACSP, YCS, support to carers

Waiving of Charges

• current regulations
• Challenges
• Resolve for Stage 2

Issues in Evidence

• Young carer statement – links to child’s plan and

information to named person

• Timescales for ACSP/YCS
• Emergency planning
• Information and advice – establish and maintain
• Local/national eligibility criteria
• Short breaks
• Consult carers – hospital admission and discharge
• Complaints, accountability, monitoring
• Local carer strategies – resource statements

Issues in Evidence

• Definition of carer
• Assessment
• Need YCS
• Balance between assessment and support
• Detail on face of Bill
• Community supports
• Preventative support
• Carer/Cared-for interaction
• Relationship with other legislation

Bill’s context

• Supporting carers specifically
• Wider context of integration
• Improving the nation’s health and

improving physical and mental health

• utcomes
• Healthy behaviours become the norm
• Look beyond health and social care
• Digital technology

Short Breaks

• What do we know
• Not got complete picture
• Respite weeks data
• Evaluation of voluntary sector short breaks fund
• Power in SDS Act
• CIS + Integrated Care Fund + Local authority

expenditure

• What works
• What next