ageing well leadership academy - belinda wadsworth presentation
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Belinda Wadsworth from Age UK presented: Policy Prorities of Older People. What is important to older people and how you can help to make this a reality in your local area.TRANSCRIPT
Policy Priorities for Older People
Belinda WadsworthStrategy Adviser – Local and Regional Policy, Age UK
Leadership Academy - Coventry
20th February 2011
Overview of Session
• What is important to older people?
• How can you help to make this a reality in your local area?
What is important to older people?
• How do we find out?
Informal conversations
Correspondence – letters, emails, phonecalls
Research – focus groups, surveys/questionnaires
Forums – meetings, conferences, seminars
Specific consultations – eg the Big Q
What is important to older people?
• What do we know already?
Older People’s Strategy? Informed by older people?
Overarching council strategy/plan – reflecting ageing society?
LAA priorities?
Local research, surveys/questionnaires? Done by a Forum?
Priorities recently agreed, or time for a review?
What is important to older people?
Transport CareAgeism PavementsHospital Care The younger generationPublic Toilets Finance/IncomeHousing Employment/Training Health Fuel pricesCheques Consumer Issues
Older people tell us they are concerned about…
Age UK’s priorities:
Equal respect
Support to be independent
Income
Health
Communities
Age UK’s priorities: locally
Equal respect: Public Sector Equality Duty; human rights principles; mental capacity; safeguarding
Support: local care funding; personalisation not just personal budgets; support for carers
Income: joint action on take-up; local fuel poverty strategies; advice and advocacy
Health: commissioning for prevention; championing dignity; improving mental health services
Communities: age-friendly neighbourhoods; alternative transport; Lifetime Homes
Short-term protection, long-term vision
Build demographic change into all budgets
Develop a cross-cutting strategic approach to ageing
Protect the most vulnerable
Deliver in full on statutory obligations
Maintain and invest in preventative services
Place equality at heart of all decisions
The changing landscape…
Impact on the local public sector:
Consultation/good practice or panic?
Restructuring and redundancies
Stronger role for councillors
New role for GPs
Transfer of public health to local authority
The changing landscape…
Impact on the local voluntary sector:
Loss of funding/services
Restructuring and redundancies
New partnerships/consortia
Changing market
Big Society – new expectations?
The changing landscape…
We are in it together…
Older people
Public sector Voluntary sector
Working together to make it a reality…
Find out what’s important to older people
Be ambitious - find new ways to deliver
Stay focussed - on agreed priorities and outcomes
Use new opportunities
Working together to make it a reality…
Opportunities…
Duty to Involve, Consult and Inform
Public Sector Equality Duty
Big Society, community budgets eg participatory budgeting: Your Local Budget
Localism Bill
Health and social care reforms – personalisation, GP consortia, public health budget
Questions?
Contact:
Belinda WadsworthStrategy Adviser – Local and Regional Policyt. 0121 459 8952 m. 07740 040175e. [email protected]