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The Health and Social Care Bill and carers Christine Rowley Carers Co-ordinator, Dudley MBC. General Provisions. Expected to become law in April 2015 Duty on LAs to promote the wellbeing of adults receiving care and of carers receiving support
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The Health and Social Care Bill and carers Christine Rowley Carers Co-ordinator, Dudley MBC
General Provisions • Expected to become law in April 2015 • Duty on LAs to promote the wellbeing of adults receiving care and of carers receiving support • Duty on LAs to provide information and advice relating to care and support • Duty on LAs to provide preventative services
Right to carer’s assessment • Any carer with needs should be assessed • Assessment automatically offered • Can be offered even if cared for person not being assessed • No regular & substantial care requirement • Nothing really new – tidying up legislation
Some issues re assessment • Carers organisations say that, as the Care Bill only covers carers of adults, parent carers could end up with lesser rights-needs to be amendments to the Children and Families Bill • The government has alreadyagreed to make changes to the CaF Bill to provide comparable rights to young carers – who may be carers for adults and/or children
Rights to services • New duty to provide services to meet eligible needs • There will be nationally set eligibility criteria for both carers and the people they care for • Carers UK pressing for LAs duty to meet the equivalent of the current FACs ‘moderate needs’ • No detailed guidance yet
Whose services? • which services are carers services and which are services for the cared for person • LAs will have the power to charge for services • Most carers eligible needs will still continue to be met by support to the cared for person • Carers in Dudley already benefit from wide range of services
Any money? • Extra funding- about 1.1 million for Dudley:162K for work on assessments – rest on services • We don’t yet know who will get money and what conditions will be attached • Likely to be emphasis on collaborative commissioning and personal budgets
What can you do now • Complete the Carer Aware and Young Carer Aware course • Use the Making it Real checklist to evaluate the way you work with carers • Consider the carer fully in your assessments • Refer carers to the Carers Network or to other appropriate local support