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What we represent…..
CCN Conference
LGA Special interest Group Advocacy Policy Development Communications CCN Conference
What we do…
27 County Councils 10 Unitary Councils 23 million People 47% of Pop/55% 85s 86% England Landmass
Rural Areas James Maker Policy Manager What we represent.. What we - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Rural Areas James Maker Policy Manager What we represent.. What we - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Adult Social Care in Rural Areas James Maker Policy Manager What we represent.. What we do 27 County Councils LGA Special interest Group CCN Conference 10 Unitary Councils CCN Conference Advocacy 23 million People 47% of
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CCN Activity on ASC - What have we done up to now?
2014 2015
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County APPG Inquiry
“Integrated care and support: the future of adult social care in county areas”
- What are the opportunities, barriers and challenges
facing counties and local partners in delivering an integrated health and social care system?
- What precise measures and policy interventions can a)
Central Government, and, b) local partnerships, do to
- vercome challenges, remove barriers and better
integrate care and support?
- What is the future shape of adult social care provision in
county areas?
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County APPG Inquiry – Key Findings
The State of Care in Counties: Campaign Video
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County APPG Inquiry – Key Findings
The State of Care in Counties
LG Futures……specific cost drivers associated with rural service delivery led to ‘a substantial cost penalty’ for predominately rural areas. They argued that ‘the provision for sparsity within the formulae is very small compared to the size of the actual cost penalty’.
- Population sparsity leads to higher delivery costs and
makes it more difficult for commercial providers to keep their staff. Rurality also leads to complex care markets.
Lancashire ’We have a very large and fragmented care provider market, with almost four hundred care homes for older people and almost two hundred home care providers. Relating to so many providers is challenging, as is shaping and influencing such a market. Providing domiciliary services in rural areas, where fewer providers operate, travel time is much greater and staff more difficult to recruit.’ Nottinghamshire …..‘the challenges are compounded by the disparity in pay and Terms and Conditions of employment with health care staff generally having better T&C and pay’.
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County APPG Inquiry – Key Findings
The State of Care in Counties
North Yorkshire ……1 County and 7 Borough and District Councils, 5 Clinical Commissioning Groups, 4 main Acute NHS Trusts and 3 Mental Health Trusts, over 4000 voluntary sector organisations and multiple independent sector providers, as well as a high proportion of people who fund their own care, there is significant complexity in the commissioning and delivery of health and social care services”
- Wide geographical areas also create organisational
challenges for the large and complex health economies in rural county areas.
Lincolnshire County Council “Working in a two tier area presents additional complexity and resources to manage it. Lincolnshire has four CCGs and 7 district/city councils. The challenge
- f obtaining consensus is therefore self-
evident and is further complicated with a mixed political make up within the local Government system.”
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County APPG Inquiry – Key Recommendations
Too address rural challenges……. As part of the 2015 Spending Review the Government must conduct a full review of the sustainability of adult social care, including allocation formulae and with a particular focus on rebalancing the allocation older persons Relative Needs Formula (RNF) per head of population. a) Larger or entirely pooled budget; b) New delivery structures and; c) Enhanced local powers to commission services.
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County Devolution, part of the solution?
What would a “Deal” mean in a rural county….
- Agree a larger or entire locally
pooled budget.
- Removal of all restrictions on
pooled budgeting and a ten year shared financial settlement for health and social care.
- Local partners are given greater
freedom to agree robust, transparent and accountable performance management frameworks
Devolved budgets & performance management
- Enabling HWBs to commission
primary, secondary health and social care services
- Powers to scrutinise and align
commissioning plans of CCGs should be strengthened.
- Local authority partners consider
the pooling or delegation of specific housing and health related services.
Enhanced commissioning and financial powers for Health and Wellbeing Boards
- Local authorities conduct a full
review of their membership of HWBs.
- Local partners are given freedom
to review and rationalise CCGs and their boundaries, seeking coterminosity with local authority boundaries where possible.
- Partners are given greater freedom
and flexibility to explore how HWBs interact within wider governance arrangements, including Combined Authorities.
Empowered leadership, reformed governance and direct democratic accountability
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James Maker
CCN Policy Manager James.maker2@local.gov.uk 0207 6643009
Michael Chard
Senior Policy Officer Michael.Chard@local.gov.uk 0207 6643009