simon gillespie: building a fair and sustainable care system
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Simon Gillespie, Chair at the Care & Support Alliance, discusses why social care needs to be reformed and gives an overview of the care and support White Paper and the key recommendations identified by the Dilnot Commission.TRANSCRIPT
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Building a fair and sustainable care system
Simon GillespieChief Executive, MS Society
Chair, Care and Support Alliance
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• To enable more people to fully participate in work and our society
• Demand for social care is exceeding our ability to meet people’s needs
• The costs will become greater if we don’t act now
Reasons for social care reform
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Aims of Care and Support Alliance
• Fair and equitable access to high quality care and support
• Care and support that is based on needs of individuals
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How to build a fair and sustainable care system
• Seek improvements in social care delivery
• Ensure that there is a clear legal framework for social care
• Work to resolve longer-term funding issues for social care
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Key recommendations identified by
Dilnot Commission• A “zero cap” on an individual’s
contribution to lifetime care costs for disabled adults aged 18-40, incrementally rising to £35,000 by aged 65
• An annual limit of £7,000 on an individual’s contributions to living costs in residential care
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Key recommendations identified by
Dilnot Commission• Raising the savings threshold to £100,000 • A national system of eligibility and
assessment
• Expanding preventative support for people with lesser needs
• Also must be accompanied by increased baseline spending on social care
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Key principles for social care reform
• Freedom
• Fairness
• Responsibility
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Response of community and voluntary sector
• Total package: Reform of social care into a modern system, new legislation, plus Dilnot and additional baseline funding
• Dilnot represents step change in state contribution and what people contribute themselves - Partnership
• Reform of whole system offers opportunities for new service development
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Response of voluntary and community sector
• Law reform could help to drive development of more personalised and creative services
• Some challenges for voluntary and community sector delivering personalisation i.e. fragmentation
• Sustainable funding solution needed for more sustainable commissioning and delivery
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White Paper:‘Caring for our future:
reforming care and support’
• Draft bill: an historic moment for change
• Lack of clarity on proposals
• Proposals undermined by lack of commitment to funding
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White Paper:‘Caring for our future:
reforming care and support’
• Information and advice• Eligibility• Portability• Personalised care and support
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White Paper:‘Caring for our future:
reforming care and support’
• Quality• Carers• Integration• Funding
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Contacts
• www.careandsupportalliance.org
• Secretariat with Carers UK contact: [email protected]
• Chair: Simon Gillespie, Chief Executive MS Society – [email protected]