Unit 9 P1 Health And Social Care
Social care is conveyed by a wide range of associations and experts, and inside families and societies. Those that provide social care are the ones that work in the health and social care sector such as social workers, nurses, registered managers, supervisors and occupational therapist. Many people who provide social care aren’t paid. “Carers provide all sorts of practical support: help cooking meals, help with the washing, just keeping someone company; they also help with benefits and other financial matters. Sometimes they help with personal care” (The King's Fund, 2017)
Each administration that exists inside wellbeing and social care belongs to one of four types of establishment i.e. Voluntary, statutory, private or informal. Organisations …show more content…
involved in health and social care are social services, NHS, Strategic Health Authorities, NHS Trusts, primary health care, secondary healthcare, tertiary health care, mental health trusts and children’s trusts.
Many individuals are astounded to discover that social care isn’t free for the purpose of the utilisation in the way that NHS care is. Social care is financed by individuals paying for their own care, by local government or every so often a blend of the two. Local government spending cuts have essentially expanded weights on the social care framework. After the World War 2, the two systems health and social care were formatted as two separately funded services. Different from the NHS, to get the publicly funded social care your requirements must meet certain criteria; they must be sufficiently high, with a specific end goal to get publicly funded social care. In order to get the publicly funded social care, your means must be sufficiently low. If an individual has more than a relatively small amount of savings and assets, the individual will have to pay for some or …show more content…
maybe all their care. Those that don’t meet all requirements for openly subsidised social end up paying for it out of their own pocket. In spite of the fact it’s difficult to evaluate precisely how much private financing there is, a few appraisals put it at half or all use. At present, just individuals with resources of less than £23,250 and low incomes get any assistance from the state with their care bolster costs. Individuals who develop long-term serve care and support needs can in this manner conform generous expenses before they can get any money related help from the state. There is a wide range of care arrangements in the present society that assistance towards guaranteeing that an individual is given care that is reasonable to them. The combined economy of care that is accessible to individuals needing it can be provided by the legal sector, private sector and unpaid or casual carers. A casual carer is a man, as a relative, companion or neighbour.
The government’s Care Act legislation holds many changes to social care, but the two main changes which are affecting how care is funded are a lifetime cap on care costs set at £72,000 and changes to the means test. The Care Act 2014 sets out in one place, local authorities obligations in relation to assessing people’s needs and their suitability for publicly funded care and support. It is planned that a cap of £72,000 will be introduced. That means that no one will have to pay more for their eligible care needs to be met once they have spent a total of £72,00, this cap will apply to the cost of care that people receive either in their own or living in a care home. The cap was due to come into effect from April 2016, but the government has delayed this until April 2020. The means test is where a person’s finances and assets are looked at to decide how much they should contribute towards the cost of their care, changes to the means test were due to come into effect in April 2016, but they are now also set to be delayed until April 2020. Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities must:
• carry out an assessment of anyone who appears to require care and support, regardless of their likely eligibility for state-funded care
• focus the assessment on the person’s needs and how they impact on their wellbeing, and the outcomes they want to achieve
• involve the person in the assessment and, where appropriate, their carer or someone else they nominate
• provide access to an independent advocate to support the person’s involvement in the assessment if required
• consider other things besides care services that can contribute to the desired outcomes (e.g. preventive services, community support)
• use the new national minimum threshold to judge eligibility for publicly funded care and support. (Scie.org.uk, 2017) “While everyone agrees that there is a social care crisis there is little consensus about the size of the gap and how far new investment goes to close it. Adult social care in England is in crisis. Between 2009/10 and 2014/15 funding fell by 9% in real terms, and 400,000 fewer older people received publicly funded care. The 2015 autumn statement announced a new council tax precept and investment through an improved Better Care Fund. Despite this, the common consensus was that a substantial funding gap remained”. (Publicfinance.co.uk, 2017)
The Association of Directors for Adult social services, in their portrayal to the 2016 Autumn Statement, ADASS cited a financing hole in the overabundance of £1.4bn in 2016/17 due to the Better Care Funding.
These assessments, initially considered in light of measures declared in the 2015 spending survey, are transcendently gotten from anticipated request evaluates inside the Local Government Association’s future financing standpoint for add up to Local Authority spending plans. To this, they included the cost of increasing cost, and the new ‘national living wage’ which association of directors for adult social services estimation will expand add up to costs by £610m in 2016/17, and further £360m in 2017/18, considering their 2016 budget survey. “The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services stayed clear that these estimates represent a best-case scenario, not accounting for either the prior state of local government finances most councils predict overspends on social care for 2017/18 or the unmet need following recent years of disinvestment”.
(Publicfinance.co.uk,2017)
The Local Government Association evaluated current pressures expanding on information for the cost of giving consideration from analysts. For example, the UK Home Care Association and from Laing Buisson’s market reports. For the future test, they consolidated populace and expansion projections with the association of directors for adult social services asses for the ‘national living wage’ and contrasted these with subsidising accessible through the local government back settlement. They appraise that by 2019/20 an extra £2.6bn would be required- at any rate £1.3bn to manage the provider market pressure today, and £1.3bn to handle the future funding gap. This is another traditionalist gauge, not representing neglected need and other framework wide weights, in spite of the fact that it allows for some expansion to help balance out the market. Perceiving this, they are presently taking a shot at a refresh to better mirror the genuine cost of giving a high calibre of care to each one of the individuals who require it.
Individual evaluation
Overall the group work was quite easy because the topic of how is social care provided and by whom is almost spoken daily on the news, newspaper and many other places, what made the assignment is was the fact that the topic is very popular and common and that the group of individuals that I worked with were already familiar with the topic because they had already had an insight of the topic from their pervious institute. Working in a group can be quite challenging because you might have individuals that can’t always meet up because they have other priorities, if this assignment was set out as an individual assignment it would be quite challenging and would need more time to complete. My group largely focused on getting the work done and not networking with each other, I must say working in a group has really developed my communication skills, I have learned several new skills and have gained knowledge. Even though the group developed my communication skills, I personally think that I could have communicated with my group more. I helped the group by making sure that everyone was using the right resources by this I was making sure that the resources that were being used was linking to the topic of the assignment. The group did lack communication, not everyone in the group was talking to each other, we hardly communicated.
This assignment has taught me a lot about how social care is provided and by whom, I now have a better understanding of social care. The only difficult thing about this assignment was referencing the work. I would say I am more confident with using the learning centre because they are computers where you put in the topic that you are looking for into the search tool and you have many resources come up and the location of where you can find these resources which was very helpful.
Each administration that exists inside wellbeing and social care belongs to one of four types of establishment i.e. Voluntary, statutory, private or informal. Organisations …show more content…
involved in health and social care are social services, NHS, Strategic Health Authorities, NHS Trusts, primary health care, secondary healthcare, tertiary health care, mental health trusts and children’s trusts.
Many individuals are astounded to discover that social care isn’t free for the purpose of the utilisation in the way that NHS care is. Social care is financed by individuals paying for their own care, by local government or every so often a blend of the two. Local government spending cuts have essentially expanded weights on the social care framework. After the World War 2, the two systems health and social care were formatted as two separately funded services. Different from the NHS, to get the publicly funded social care your requirements must meet certain criteria; they must be sufficiently high, with a specific end goal to get publicly funded social care. In order to get the publicly funded social care, your means must be sufficiently low. If an individual has more than a relatively small amount of savings and assets, the individual will have to pay for some or …show more content…
maybe all their care. Those that don’t meet all requirements for openly subsidised social end up paying for it out of their own pocket. In spite of the fact it’s difficult to evaluate precisely how much private financing there is, a few appraisals put it at half or all use. At present, just individuals with resources of less than £23,250 and low incomes get any assistance from the state with their care bolster costs. Individuals who develop long-term serve care and support needs can in this manner conform generous expenses before they can get any money related help from the state. There is a wide range of care arrangements in the present society that assistance towards guaranteeing that an individual is given care that is reasonable to them. The combined economy of care that is accessible to individuals needing it can be provided by the legal sector, private sector and unpaid or casual carers. A casual carer is a man, as a relative, companion or neighbour.
The government’s Care Act legislation holds many changes to social care, but the two main changes which are affecting how care is funded are a lifetime cap on care costs set at £72,000 and changes to the means test. The Care Act 2014 sets out in one place, local authorities obligations in relation to assessing people’s needs and their suitability for publicly funded care and support. It is planned that a cap of £72,000 will be introduced. That means that no one will have to pay more for their eligible care needs to be met once they have spent a total of £72,00, this cap will apply to the cost of care that people receive either in their own or living in a care home. The cap was due to come into effect from April 2016, but the government has delayed this until April 2020. The means test is where a person’s finances and assets are looked at to decide how much they should contribute towards the cost of their care, changes to the means test were due to come into effect in April 2016, but they are now also set to be delayed until April 2020. Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities must:
• carry out an assessment of anyone who appears to require care and support, regardless of their likely eligibility for state-funded care
• focus the assessment on the person’s needs and how they impact on their wellbeing, and the outcomes they want to achieve
• involve the person in the assessment and, where appropriate, their carer or someone else they nominate
• provide access to an independent advocate to support the person’s involvement in the assessment if required
• consider other things besides care services that can contribute to the desired outcomes (e.g. preventive services, community support)
• use the new national minimum threshold to judge eligibility for publicly funded care and support. (Scie.org.uk, 2017) “While everyone agrees that there is a social care crisis there is little consensus about the size of the gap and how far new investment goes to close it. Adult social care in England is in crisis. Between 2009/10 and 2014/15 funding fell by 9% in real terms, and 400,000 fewer older people received publicly funded care. The 2015 autumn statement announced a new council tax precept and investment through an improved Better Care Fund. Despite this, the common consensus was that a substantial funding gap remained”. (Publicfinance.co.uk, 2017)
The Association of Directors for Adult social services, in their portrayal to the 2016 Autumn Statement, ADASS cited a financing hole in the overabundance of £1.4bn in 2016/17 due to the Better Care Funding.
These assessments, initially considered in light of measures declared in the 2015 spending survey, are transcendently gotten from anticipated request evaluates inside the Local Government Association’s future financing standpoint for add up to Local Authority spending plans. To this, they included the cost of increasing cost, and the new ‘national living wage’ which association of directors for adult social services estimation will expand add up to costs by £610m in 2016/17, and further £360m in 2017/18, considering their 2016 budget survey. “The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services stayed clear that these estimates represent a best-case scenario, not accounting for either the prior state of local government finances most councils predict overspends on social care for 2017/18 or the unmet need following recent years of disinvestment”.
(Publicfinance.co.uk,2017)
The Local Government Association evaluated current pressures expanding on information for the cost of giving consideration from analysts. For example, the UK Home Care Association and from Laing Buisson’s market reports. For the future test, they consolidated populace and expansion projections with the association of directors for adult social services asses for the ‘national living wage’ and contrasted these with subsidising accessible through the local government back settlement. They appraise that by 2019/20 an extra £2.6bn would be required- at any rate £1.3bn to manage the provider market pressure today, and £1.3bn to handle the future funding gap. This is another traditionalist gauge, not representing neglected need and other framework wide weights, in spite of the fact that it allows for some expansion to help balance out the market. Perceiving this, they are presently taking a shot at a refresh to better mirror the genuine cost of giving a high calibre of care to each one of the individuals who require it.
Individual evaluation
Overall the group work was quite easy because the topic of how is social care provided and by whom is almost spoken daily on the news, newspaper and many other places, what made the assignment is was the fact that the topic is very popular and common and that the group of individuals that I worked with were already familiar with the topic because they had already had an insight of the topic from their pervious institute. Working in a group can be quite challenging because you might have individuals that can’t always meet up because they have other priorities, if this assignment was set out as an individual assignment it would be quite challenging and would need more time to complete. My group largely focused on getting the work done and not networking with each other, I must say working in a group has really developed my communication skills, I have learned several new skills and have gained knowledge. Even though the group developed my communication skills, I personally think that I could have communicated with my group more. I helped the group by making sure that everyone was using the right resources by this I was making sure that the resources that were being used was linking to the topic of the assignment. The group did lack communication, not everyone in the group was talking to each other, we hardly communicated.
This assignment has taught me a lot about how social care is provided and by whom, I now have a better understanding of social care. The only difficult thing about this assignment was referencing the work. I would say I am more confident with using the learning centre because they are computers where you put in the topic that you are looking for into the search tool and you have many resources come up and the location of where you can find these resources which was very helpful.