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Independent Age
25 March 2015 1
Implementation of the Care Act 2014
Understanding the programmeof reform for April 2015 and April 2016
The Care Act 2014
• The Care Act became law in May 2014 and comes into force from April 2015
• The Care Act intends to update and consolidate the previously fragmented state of social care law
• The biggest change will be the new laws around the care cap that will come into force in April 2016.
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The principles of the Care Act
• Wellbeing at the heart of legislation
• Expanded duties to prevent care needs and provide information and advice
• There are new responsibilities for integratinghealth and social care services and ensuring cooperation between adult and carers services
• Market shaping must ensure an ‘effective and efficient’ local care market.
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The big numbers
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Reforms: April 2015
• Legal right to a care needs assessment (including carers)
• New national eligibility criteria
• Everyone who gets a care package to receive a personal budget
• Advocacy support
• National deferred payments scheme.
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Reforms: April 2016
• New thresholds for charging for council support
• Right to ask the council to arrange care services for you, even if you are a self-funder
• Right to appeal
• Care Cap.
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What the care cap “caps”
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Challenges for implementation
• Funding
• Training
• Infrastructure
• Public awareness.
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National Government still has to fix…
• Lack of funding: £3bn +
• Low levels of public understanding
• Fragmented health and care systems
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Spending Review 2015
Awareness campaign ahead of 2016
Single health and care system.
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Andrew Kaye
Head of Policy and Campaigns
Independent Age
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