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The Mole News and information for
Disabled People in Lambeth
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UPDATE ON THE
SOCIAL CARE HUB
DISCOVER OUR NEW
INTO SPORT PROJECT
Work continues to create the new
Social Care Hub for disabled and
older people and carers in Lambeth.
Find out what people told us they
want from the Hub and how plans are
developing to make it a reality.
See pages 4 & 5.
Our exciting new 3 year proj ect to
support more disabled people to take
part in sport and physical activity has
j ust kicked off. Find out how you can
get involved from proj ect worker
Tricia Reilly on pages 6 & 7.
THE CARE ACT 2014
WHAT WILL IT DO?
See pages 9 & 10 for information
about this maj or new legislation which
comes into force in April 2015.
CHANGES IN
ADVICE SERVICES
Advice services in the borough have
been reshaped as a result of Lambeth
Council decisions on strategy and
funding. More inside on how this
affects DASL and about the new One
Lambeth Advice service.
Page 2 DASL NEWS DASL UPDATE
It has been far from “ business as usual” for DASL in 2014 and we
continue to grapple with the maj or changes in our own organisation and
to Council and other services which are increasingly affecting disabled
and older people and carers. We are working with the Council and our
voluntary sector partners on the design of the new Social Care Hub and
thinking about how the Care Act might affect us when it comes into force in 2015.
While we concentrate on reshaping our maj or services we are, nevertheless, trying
to develop new DASL proj ects for disabled people and are delighted to introduce you
to our new Into Sport service. We would also like DASL members and users to get
involved in a new initiative on Disability Hate Crime. More on all these issues inside.
As a result of the implementation of the Lambeth Financial Resilience Strategy
(see http: / / tinyurl.com/ k7zgugv) and funding pressures on the Council, our Lambeth
Resolve Advice Service closed
down at the end of June and the
team (above) has dispersed.
Allana, Esther, Silva and John
now work for the Every Pound
Counts service at Lambeth
Council and Richard has taken
up a post as a legal adviser with a
Government department. We wish them
every success for the future. Happily,
Debbie Hunte has stayed on with DASL,
continuing to work on her main j ob with our
Carers Hub team.
A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
The DASL AGM 2014 will be on
Friday 5th December, 11am to 1pm.
Members will receive full details by
post in November.
Contents
DASL News 2
Disability Hate Crime 3
Update on Social Care Hub 4 & 5
Into Sport 6 & 7
Lambeth Advice Services 8
DASL Advocacy Service 9
The Care Act 2014 9 & 10
Notice Board 11
How to contact us 12
David Strong
Director
Page 3
LAMBETH DISABILITY
HATE CRIME WORKSHOP
Wednesday 15th October
10am - 12noon at We are 336
336 Brixton Road, SW9 7AA
Contact DASL (see back page) for
more details ALL WELCOME
LAMBETH DISABILITY NEWS
DISABILITY HATE CRIME
have JJj ointly organised a workshop for
anyone who would like to come and
discuss their experiences and how we
can work together to fight Disability
Hate Crime. There will be an
information stall, speakers including
Mark Healey , Corrina Hanley
(Lambeth Vulnerable Victims
Advocate) and Victim Support and
discussion about how we can
collaborate to develop reporting
arrangements. This event is part of
Hate Crime Awareness Week from
11th to 18th October.
DASL is working with We are 336,
other local disability groups, Victim
Support and Mark Healey, Lambeth
Council Hate Crime Coordinator, to
give more focus to Disability Hate
Crime as part of the Lambeth Hate
Crime Action Plan.
Many Disabled People experience
hate crime or hate incidents
motivated by hostility or prej udice
based on their disability or perceived
disability but very few cases are
reported. Much more needs to be
done to raise awareness of the
problem, to train staff of agencies
which can help and to develop a
network of local centres where all
types of hate crime can be reported.
We want We are 336 to be one of
these centres, particularly for
disabled people. As a first step we
Mark Healey
Lambeth
Hate Crime
Coordinator
Check out Mark’s Lambeth
Hate Crime Blog at
lambethhcc.wordpress.com/
disability/
Page 4 LAMBETH DISABILITY NEWS
UPDATE ON LAMBETH SOCIAL CARE HUB
Work is now going on to develop a new single Social Care Hub for Lambeth. This
will bring together the main voluntary sector services for disabled and older
people, people with long-term conditions and adult and young carers into a new
service which, it is planned, should be in place by late 2014. The service will
provide information, advice, advocacy, support with Direct Payments/ Personal
Budgets and a range of other support services and activities.
The Council is working, through a
Steering Group, with the current
providers of services to these client
groups (DASL, Age UK Lambeth,
South Thames Crossroads, Lambeth
Mencap and Certitude) and with
Healthwatch Lambeth and NHS
Lambeth to “ co-produce” the new
Hub. This will be largely based on
what service users and other
stakeholders have told us through a
series of events and surveys which
took place between April and June.
two on-line surveys for service users
and for stakeholders.
“ Co-production” - who we spoke to
We wanted to hear from as many
disabled and older people and carers
as possible, whether they use the
current services or might want to use
the Social Care Hub in the future.
We also wanted views and ideas from
organisations, professionals and
members of the public. The Steering
Group organised a variety of
different workshops, focus groups,
forums and public meetings as well as
There were special sessions for:
All carers, at the April Carers’ Hub
Lambeth Forum
Carers for Adults with Learning
Disabilities, with Mental Health
Problems and with Dementia
Young Carers (with their parents)
and Young Adult Carers
Disabled People
Older People
Deaf People
Stroke Survivors
Lambeth Mencap Peoples Rights
Group
Page 5 LAMBETH DISABILITY NEWS
UPDATE ON LAMBETH SOCIAL CARE HUB
KEEP IN TOUCH WITH ALL THE
NEWS ABOUT THE SOCIAL CARE
HUB ON THE DASL WEBSITE at:
http: / / tinyurl.com/ qbvj fk8
There were also three public
meetings at We are 336, Tate
Library Streatham and the Town Hall
for anyone interested in the Hub to
come and find out more and give their
views. The Steering Group has been
looking carefully at the feedback
people gave us about the services
they wanted the new Hub to provide:
Key principles
* One place for services
* “ Tell my story once only”
* Continuity of staff – not always
dealing with someone different
* Not j ust generalist staff but people
with specialist roles (Advocacy,
Direct Payments) and specialist
knowledge of working with particular
client groups
* Dealing with pressure/ prevention -
getting services to people in time
* Good communication suited to the
needs of different groups (eg people
who are deaf or visually impaired, or
with aphasia, or learning disability)
Key services
* Information
* Advice – especially on benefits,
money and community care
* Advocacy
* Activities and opportunities for
socialising
* Someone to talk to (counselling,
peer support and befriending)
* Respite/ breaks for carers
* Housing, employment and transport
-related support
* Opportunities for education
(especially for young carers) and
learning new skills (eg IT)
* Policy/ campaigning work –
supporting the voice of users
The next stage of the work is to
agree the Outcomes for the new
service and how these will be
measured and monitored and then to
design the new service to achieve
these.
336 Brixton Road will be the main
home of the new Social Care Hub
Page 6 FOCUS ON DASL SERVICES
INTRODUCING INTO SPORT
Into Sport
Worker Hi there! My name is Patricia Reilly but I like to be known as
Tricia. I am really excited to tell you about the new 3 year
DASL proj ect called Into Sport. It is funded by Sport England,
involves 4 other local Deaf and Disabled Organisations in
London and is led by Inclusion London with support from
Interactive. Our aim is to support more Deaf and Disabled and
people aged 14 and over to become involved in Sport and
Physical Activity. Tricia
Page 7 INTO SPORT
Whether or not you think Sport and
Physical Activity (SPA) is for you, the
proj ect has something to offer
everyone. We can show that, with the
right support, disabled people can
enj oy these activities and benefit
from them. To achieve this:
● I can help you with information
a b o u t S P A o p p o r t u n i t i e s .
● I can work with you to develop your
own SPA support plan to reflect your
i n t e r e s t s a n d a b i l i t i e s .
● I can encourage and support you to
engage in regular activities and to
identify your own personal targets
a n d o u t c o m e s .
● I can assist you in identifying
suitable opportunities, accompanying
you on initial visits to facilities/
activities, liaising with providers to
track your progress, advocating for
you where access or services are
inadequate for your needs .
● I can support you to raise
additional funds (where available) to
enable you to take up SPA
opportunities and maintain your
i n v o l v e m e n t w i t h t h e m .
● I can provide you with tools and
techniques for you to assess your own
progress against your personal
outcomes whilst reviewing and
updating your support plan with you.
● I will also be co-ordinating a new
Access and Advocacy GGroup which
will give you the opportunity to meet
and support each other.
The proj ect has got off to a great
start. I have shared opposite photos
of our visit to the Liberty Festival. I
hope to hear from you soon.
How can I help you??
Lambeth SPA Strategy
020 7642 0041
www.facebook.com/ daslintosport
twitter.com/ daslintosport
Check out our Eventbrite page at
http: / / tinyurl.com/monsdhb
www.disabilitylambeth.org.uk/ dasl/ sport/
Great timing for my pro j ect!
Lambeth Council is working on a new
Sports & Physical Activity Strategy.
I am pleased to be part of the
consultation group. To find out more
or give your views, please contact me.
How to contact me
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information to
you, direct you
to another
service or, if you need it, arrange an
appointment for you with an agency
from the Lambeth Advice Network
or Every Pound Counts (if you are a
carer or a disabled or older person
and need help with benefits
problems). The service is also
creating a network of Advice Guides,
people trained to help you find what
you need on-line, make phone calls or
send emails. Advice Guides can
currently be found in a number of
advice agencies and GP surgeries and
at Olive Morris House.
LAMBETH NEWS
If you are an older or disabled person or a person with
mental health issues who needs advice...
DASL SPECIALIST
ADVICE SERVICE
Our advice service
for people with
mental health issues, managed by
JJohn Martin, can help you if you
need casework on benefits, debt,
housing, community care or
applying for accessible transport
services.
LAMBETH RESOLVE
IS STILL
HERE TO HELP !
Disabled and older people can still
contact Lambeth Resolve for general
advice, information and support. If you
need specialist advice we will make
sure we refer you to agencies,
including Every Pound Counts and One
Lambeth Advice, which can help.
THE NEW SHAPE OF ADVICE SERVICES IN LAMBETH
One Lambeth Advice (OLA) is a new
service provided by the CAB and the
Council. It gives help and advice to
anyone in the borough on a range of
issues: Welfare benefits; Debt and/
or money; Work; Housing; Goods and
services.
You can contact the service: on-line
www.onelambethadvice.org.uk or by
phone on 0844 245 1298
The website has a range of useful
guides on advice topics for people
who want to help themselves but a
CAB adviser
will also be
able to explain
Page 9 FOCUS ON DASL SERVICES
PROFESSIONAL ADVOCACY SERVICE
THE CARE ACT 2014
The Care Act 2014 is
the single largest
change to health and social care
policy for a generation. It brings
together a number of existing laws
and introduces new duties for English
local authorities. It also takes into
account the findings of the Dilnot
Commission Report into the Funding
of Care and Support. The maj ority of
the Act will come into force in April
2015 with the remainder, concerned
with the cap on care costs, to be
introduced in April 2016. The Act:
● establishes the Well-being Principle to
guide councils’ overall approach.
Well-being covers outcomes such as
physical, mental and emotional
well-being and also participation in
work, education and training and social
and economic well-being;
● places a new duty on councils to
provide / arrange services which will
prevent, delay or reduce the needs for
care and support of adults.;
● requires councils to provide
Our Advocacy team, Anna Fairbank and
Claire Camplin , continue to be
exceptionally busy with a steady stream
of new referrals. A growing proportion
of cases concern support to disabled
parents of children who are subj ect to
Ch i l d P r o tect i o n con cern s o r
proceedings. We are trying to balance
this workload with the support we need
to offer in relation to the wide range of
other types of issues - housing options,
access to community care and health
services, adult safeguarding matters -
about which our service is contacted.
The Care Act 2014 (see below) will
create a new statutory requirement for
independent advocacy
to be available in a
number of specified
situations and we
think it is vital that
the Social Care Hub takes this into
account when its resources are
allocated.
Meanwhile, to continue to improve the
quality of the service, we have applied
for the newly launched Advocacy
Quality Performance Mark and both
Anna and Claire are well advanced in
their studies for the recognised sector
qualification , the Certificate in
Independent Advocacy.
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THE CARE ACT 2014
NATIONAL NEWS
England who moves home will continue
to receive care on the day of their
a r r i v a l i n th e n e w a r e a ;
● creates the first
ever entitlement to
support for carers.
The Act also makes
some changes to the Direct Payments
regu l a t i o n s a n d s t ren gt he n s
safeguarding. Looking ahead to 2016,
the new system of paying for care will
introduce a “ cap” on the care costs
people will face and an extension of
means-tested support for residential
care to more homeowners.
information and advice relating to care
and support locally including how to
access independent financial advice;
● creates a new duty to arrange for an
independent advocate to support the
involvement of a person in their
assessment, support plan or care plan
review if they would have “ substantial
difficulty” in being fully involved and
w h e r e t h e r e i s n o o n e
“ appropriate” to support them;
● makes clear that both adults and
carers should be assessed on the
appearance of need, regardless of
what a council thinks is the level of
their need and their finances;
● puts in place a national eligibility
threshold, a level at which needs are
great enough to qualify for funded
services. This will replace Fair Access
to Care (FACS);
● Ensure that young people in
transition from children to adult
services continue to receive care and
support until their needs are
r e a s s e s s e d ;
● r e q u i r e s
“ Continuity” of care
so an adult receiving
support in one area of
HOW WILL THE CARE ACT
AFFECT THE SOCIAL CARE HUB?
Disability groups are disappointed that
it does not enshrine the principle of a
right to Independent Living but there
are many positive aspects to the Act.
Key services of the Hub which will help
the Council meet its obligations
(information, advice, advocacy, direct
payments , carers ’ support) are
covered. The Steering Group is asking
the Council for a dialogue about how we
work together to ensure that vulnerable
adults and carers really benefit from
the changes at a time of greatly
reduced financial resources.
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UK DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH 22nd NOVEMBER — 22nd DECEMBER
of the Lambeth UK Disability History Month
programme 2013 we had hoped to be able to organise
a similar range of events this year. Due to a lack of
funding and the priority we are having to give to the
work on the Social Care Hub, this has not been possible. We aim to get this exciting
work back on track in 2015 and to build on the interest we have had in getting a
Lambeth Disability History Project off the ground. The national theme for UKDHM
2014 ties in with the centenary of World War 1 and is War and Impairment: the
social consequence of disablement. Visit http: / / ukdisabilityhistorymonth.com/ in
the coming weeks for details of national and London events.
Health and Wellbeing
Councillor Jim Dickson
Tel: 020 3149 6657
E: j dickson@ lambeth.gov.uk
Responsible for health and wellbeing
strategy and for public health. Leads
on commissioning; Personalisation;
a d u l t p r ev en t i v e h e a l t h c a r e ;
integrating health, care & support.
Children and Adult Services
Councillor Jackie Meldrum
Tel: 020 7926 1166
E: jmeldrum@ lambeth.gov.uk
Responsible for social care of all ages.
Leads on: children’s social care;
safeguarding children; children in
care; disabled children ; Special
Educational Needs; adult social care;
safeguarding adults; services for
older people and carers, vulnerable
adults, including mental health service
users, and people with learning
disabilities.
Details of all the Cabinet members and
their roles can be found at http: / /
tinyurl.com/ oo936x8
KEY LAMBETH COUNCIL CABINET MEMBERS
Following the May local elections and a reshuffle of the Lambeth Cabinet roles there
are now two councillors with special responsibilities for social care, health and wellbeing
After the success
FRIDAY 31st OCTOBER 10.30am to 3pm at Assembly Hall,
Lambeth Town Hall. A day of information and activities
organised by Age UK Lambeth. DASL and Carers Hub Lambeth
will be among the 30 local organisations with stalls to visit and staff to talk to.
CELEBRATING AGE INFORMATION DAY
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We are a Disabled People’s Organisation, an independent charity serving
disabled people in Lambeth of all ages with all types of impairments
DASL provides vital services to local disabled and older people and to carers.
We want more disabled people and others who support our work to become
members. Contact us to find out how you can get involved
DASL is funded by Lambeth Council, Guys & St Thomas Charity and Sport England
Charity No. 1087399 A company limited by guarantee registered in England & Wales No. 04214688
who we are &
how to contact us www.disabilitylambeth.org.uk
General enquiries
e: [email protected] w: www.disabilitylambeth.org.uk
tel: 020 7738 5656 fax: 020 7924 9621
post: “We are 336”, 336 Brixton Road, London SW9 7AA
Lambeth Resolve
Information, advice and advocacy for disabled and older people
Enquiry Line: 020 7095 5720 (Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm)
email: [email protected] website: www.lambethresolve.org.uk
Stroke Peer Support Network
email: [email protected]
tel: 020 7642 2054 or 0777 3810264
5.4
Specialist Advice Service
tel: 020 7738 5656
Direct Payments Support Service
email: [email protected]
tel: 020 7642 0041 / 020 7642 2016
Join us … DASL membership is free!
Carers’ Hub Lambeth
Enquiry Line: 020 7642 0038
email: [email protected]
Support us ...
www.justgiving.com/dasl
Into Sport Project
email: [email protected] tel: 020 7642 0041
