Investing in Stockport Preventative Commissioning Strategy Part 1 Implications of the Care Act for prevention

Content of this session Brief overview of the Care act Details of the relevant sections of the Act Implications What we’re doing

Care Act Overview Care & support legislation has been developed over time and is in need of consolidation into a single statute; Part 1 of the Act received Royal Assent in 15 May 2014; Part 1 of the Act is comprised of 7 specific areas of focus and 1 general; Local councils' new duty to promote people's wellbeing will now apply not just to users of services, but also to carers

What’s in the Act General Duties & Universal Provision; For the first time, this gives the same rights to carers as those given to the people they care for First contact and identifying needs; Charging and financial assessment; Person-centred care and support planning; Integration and partnership working; Adult safeguarding; Moving between areas: inter local authority and cross-border issues.

GENERAL DUTIES AND UNIVERSAL PROVISION Well Being Principle –Explicit new legal duty designed to embed individual well-being behind care and support –Creates a statutory principle underpinning all functions under Part 1 of the Care Act Prevention – reducing and delaying needs clause i.e. ‘Prevent, reduce & delay’ – A need to provide a range of preventive services to help prevent and delay the development of care and support needs, or reduce care and support needs –

GENERAL DUTIES AND UNIVERSAL PROVISION – Cont. Information and Advice –Duty to provide information and advice to everyone in the local authority area, regardless of eligibility of care needs incl. independent financial advice Market shaping –Duty to promote diversity, quality & a range of different providers available for care & support services. Managing Provider failure –Duty to meet an adults needs for care and support as a result of provider failing

Implications The practicalities of applying ‘well-being’ across services; how do we measure this? The importance of identifying the services, facilities and resources that are already available which could form part of the overall local approach to prevention; How we balance identifying unmet need with increasingly challenging financial landscape; Ensuring the integration of prevention for care & support provision with wider partners in health, housing and beyond.

Implications cont. The challenge of consolidating our approaches to information & advice and avoiding duplication and confusion; Carers underpin much of the Care Act and will require building on existing good practice but refreshed/new approaches too; We need to facilitate and encourage new approaches for care & support via market shaping, but also work to develop more sustainability.

What we’re doing Main area of work has been the development of our approach to a new commissioning programme for prevention; 4 community consultation in Marple, Reddish, Offerton and Cheadle to test out the case for change; Continued development and implementation of our vulnerable adults pathway; In the process of developing a Market Position Statement.