While we don't expect immediate solutions, we urge the Government to demonstrate the political will to invest in social care and recognise the importance of adult social care to all of our lives. [...] ADASS supports the recommendations in this report to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) that would improve the processes and design of Carer’s Allowance, therefore, enabling more unpaid carers to stay in the labour market for longer as well as reducing the risk of overpayments. [...] Finance • As part of a fully funded 10-year plan for adult social care, Government should, at a minimum, commit to incrementally increasing the upper and lower capital thresholds above inflation for adult social care to increase access to state-funded care and support for those people with the least means. [...] This Government committed to ‘ending the workforce crisis across both health and social care’ in their manifesto.8 As stated earlier in our submission, the immediate priority is to improve pay, terms and conditions for adult social care staff in order to reduce the recruitment and retention challenges facing the sector and also to increase the number of economically active people of working age. [...] Our objectives include: • Furthering comprehensive, equitable, social policies and plans which reflect and shape the economic and social environment of the time; • Furthering the interests of those who need social care services regardless of their backgrounds and status; and • Promoting high standards of social care services.
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Table of Contents
- September 2024 1
- Introduction Key Statistics 1
- Creating the conditions for adult social care to thrive- 202526 Finance 2
- Make an early statement to confirm the continuation of all adult social 2
- Confirm the level of the adult social care precept at the earliest possible 2
- Commit to increasing the Minimum Income Guarantee MIG and 2
- Personal Expenses Allowance PEA by a minimum of inflation over the course of this Parliament 2
- Increase the upper and lower capital thresholds by inflation. 2
- Undertake work to streamline the number of grants and reporting 3
- Update the adult social care relative needs formula to ensure that 3
- Workforce 3
- Fair Pay Agreement for Adult Social Care- 3
- Any proposals must be co-produced with representatives from across 3
- Ensure that unintended consequences of increasing care wages for 4
- Carers 4
- Government issue an amnesty to write off substantial overpayments of 4
- Carers Allowance where carers could have been notified sooner 4
- Early Support Closer to Home 4
- Provide one-off ring-fenced funding to enable councils to commission 4
- The Path to Adult Social Care Reform- Spending Review 202627- 202829 Reform 5
- Government should as a matter of urgency commission a rapid 5
- We ask that the Commission is delivered in the shortest timescale possible of no longer than 2 years. 5
- Ensure that ADASS sector partners the social care workforce and 5
- Finance 6
- As part of a fully funded 10-year plan for adult social care Government 6
- As stated above the capital thresholds have not been uplifted for over a decade which has led to a contraction in eligibility. 6
- Workforce 6
- As part of a fully funded 10-year plan for adult social care Government 6
- Carers 6
- As part of a fully funded 10-year plan for adult social care Government 6
- Carers should be rewarded and valued for the critical role they play in 7
- Care closer to home and early support 7
- Over the course of the Spending Review period the Government should 7
- Investment in step-up and step-down intermediate care which is short- 7
- Investment in digital technology and data that makes care more 8
- About Us 8
