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Responsibility for AA to transfer to local councils?
Govt to consult on shifting responsibility for managing attendance allowance from the DWP to local councils ...
Time for a good old fashioned take up campaign!
Dear county council - funding please - you know it makes sence!
From Steve Pudney, Director of Research at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
Consultation on the future of Attendance Allowance: What questions do we need to ask?
From Steve Pudney, Director of Research at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
Consultation on the future of Attendance Allowance: What questions do we need to ask?
Professor Steve Pudney’s report is scheduled for launch on 11 July 2016.
Also, yesterday’s attendance allowance unit performance statistics for 2015/16 show potential numbers (and current levels of service) that local authorities will be taking on if proposals result in a transfer.
[ Edited: 26 Sep 2016 at 01:01 pm by shawn mach ]Responses to the consultation from -
Disability Rights UK: http://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2016/july/our-response-proposals-transfer-attendance-allowance-councils
Below are the response to the consultation from Age UK, as well as the results of a survey of older people recieving AA that was undertaken to inform our response.
Ok, both links won’t work so here’s link to page with the above on at the top of the list for the moment
http://www.ageuk.org.uk/professional-resources-home/policy/money-matters/benefits/
Responses to consultation now included in new House of Commons Library briefing paper on future of attendance allowance along with -
‘... developments since the Government’s announcement in December 2015 “giving more responsibility to councils in England, and to Wales, to support older people with care needs - including people who, under the current system, would be supported through Attendance Allowance.”... and such information as is available on the government’s plans. It also summarises reactions to the proposals from local government bodies and other stakeholders.’
http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7729
If you scroll down. there’s a copy of a new report that Age UK has published showing the value that older people place on recieving Attendance Allowance, titled The choice is mine with various responses to a recent survey we carried out.
Please feel free to share with MP’s and other interested parties, and also think about signing our open letter to government Attendance allowance campaign
Apparently the Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government has just announced at an LGA Councillors Forum that the govt is to drop it’s proposal to make councils pay attendance allowance out of localised business rates
Yippee, confirmed in this tweet from someone working at LGA
... and Work and Pensions Minister Penny Mordaunt: https://twitter.com/PennyMordauntMP/status/822062638964285441
Extract from Sajid Javid’s speech -
I’ve been talking to a lot of council leaders over the past 6 months. And one concern that comes up again and again is the possibility that Attendance Allowance funding could be resourced from retained business rates.
Well, I’m listening. Today I can confirm that the localisation of Attendance Allowance is no longer being considered as part of the business rates reforms.
I’ll be announcing further details on business rates reforms shortly. But I can tell you now that Attendance Allowance will not be included.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/supporting-local-government