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The Future of Attendance Allowance Presentation to the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People

The Future of Attendance Allowance Presentation to the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People. Monday October 28 th , 2013 James Lloyd Director Strategic Society Centre. About the Strategic Society Centre. Independent, non-partisan public policy think tank.

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The Future of Attendance Allowance Presentation to the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People

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  1. The Future of Attendance AllowancePresentation to the APPG on Housing and Care for Older People Monday October 28th, 2013 James Lloyd Director Strategic Society Centre

  2. About the Strategic Society Centre • Independent, non-partisan public policy think tank. • Interested in the big, strategic challenges facing society. • Learn more about us at: www.strategicsociety.org.uk

  3. About the Strategic Society Centre • Numerous publications on social care: • “A Cap that Fits: The ‘capped cost plus’ model” • “The Roadmap: England’s choices for the care crisis” • “Delivering a National Care Fund: How would a public private partnership work?”

  4. ‘Independence Allowance’ with Independent Age

  5. What is Attendance Allowance? • Weekly cash-payment of £53-£79 per week made to retirees with a disability; • Paid by DWP as ‘contribution to extra cost of living with a disability’. • Entitlement irrespective of financial situation or receipt of care. • Paid to around 1.3 million individuals in England at a cost of around £5 billion per year.

  6. Estimated overlap between the AA and local authority care systems in England

  7. Attendance Allowance, housing and care • What did we find out about housing situation of AA recipients?

  8. Tenure, AA recipients and the 65+ population

  9. Adaptations in property, AA recipients and the 65+ population

  10. How can we make better use of AA? • ‘Independence Allowance’ identified three broad approaches: • Data-sharing • DWP has remarkably comprehensive information on recipients; • So, let other statutory agencies use individual and population-level data that DWP has on AA recipients.

  11. How can we make better use of AA? • Information and advice; • Use AA system as ‘touch point’ for promoting information and advice • Support ‘independence behaviours’ • Use AA as a trigger for certain types of behaviour that help people to live independently at home for longer.

  12. ‘Independence Allowance’ recommendations • Digitise all AA data, and review the quality of the data; • Analyse AA data in order to publish more information on the lives of recipients, etc. • Make available population-level area-based data on AA recipients to all local authorities, clinical commissioning groups and Health and Wellbeing Boards and, where appropriate, individual-level data;

  13. ‘Independence Allowance’ recommendations • Ensure all new AA claimants are systematically offered information and advice following an application regardless of whether an award is made; • Ensure that all 1.3 million AA recipients in England have recourse to a personalised information and advice service via the telephone.

  14. Extending these insights to housing • Over 1 million older people with a disability receive AA, and live at home. • So, AA system is by far the biggest potential ‘touch-point’ for promoting housing adaptations and options to this group. • Data suggests some use of housing adaptations, but considerable scope to go further? • Are we making the best use of the AA system in relation to housing?

  15. James LloydDirectorStrategic Society Centre32-36 Loman StreetLondonSE1 0EHwww.strategicsociety.org.ukinfo@strategicsociety.org.uk @sscthinktank The Strategic Society Centre is a registered charity (No. 1144565) incorporated with limited liability in England and Wales (Company No. 7273418).

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