Ageing Well Leadership academy - Belinda Wadsworth presentation
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Policy Priorities for Older People
Belinda WadsworthStrategy Adviser – Local and Regional Policy, Age UK
Leadership Academy - Coventry
20th February 2011
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Overview of Session
• What is important to older people?
• How can you help to make this a reality in your local area?
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What is important to older people?
• How do we find out?
Informal conversations
Correspondence – letters, emails, phonecalls
Research – focus groups, surveys/questionnaires
Forums – meetings, conferences, seminars
Specific consultations – eg the Big Q
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What is important to older people?
• What do we know already?
Older People’s Strategy? Informed by older people?
Overarching council strategy/plan – reflecting ageing society?
LAA priorities?
Local research, surveys/questionnaires? Done by a Forum?
Priorities recently agreed, or time for a review?
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What is important to older people?
Transport CareAgeism PavementsHospital Care The younger generationPublic Toilets Finance/IncomeHousing Employment/Training Health Fuel pricesCheques Consumer Issues
Older people tell us they are concerned about…
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Age UK’s priorities:
Equal respect
Support to be independent
Income
Health
Communities
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Age UK’s priorities: locally
Equal respect: Public Sector Equality Duty; human rights principles; mental capacity; safeguarding
Support: local care funding; personalisation not just personal budgets; support for carers
Income: joint action on take-up; local fuel poverty strategies; advice and advocacy
Health: commissioning for prevention; championing dignity; improving mental health services
Communities: age-friendly neighbourhoods; alternative transport; Lifetime Homes
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Short-term protection, long-term vision
Build demographic change into all budgets
Develop a cross-cutting strategic approach to ageing
Protect the most vulnerable
Deliver in full on statutory obligations
Maintain and invest in preventative services
Place equality at heart of all decisions
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The changing landscape…
Impact on the local public sector:
Consultation/good practice or panic?
Restructuring and redundancies
Stronger role for councillors
New role for GPs
Transfer of public health to local authority
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The changing landscape…
Impact on the local voluntary sector:
Loss of funding/services
Restructuring and redundancies
New partnerships/consortia
Changing market
Big Society – new expectations?
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The changing landscape…
We are in it together…
Older people
Public sector Voluntary sector
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Working together to make it a reality…
Find out what’s important to older people
Be ambitious - find new ways to deliver
Stay focussed - on agreed priorities and outcomes
Use new opportunities
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Working together to make it a reality…
Opportunities…
Duty to Involve, Consult and Inform
Public Sector Equality Duty
Big Society, community budgets eg participatory budgeting: Your Local Budget
Localism Bill
Health and social care reforms – personalisation, GP consortia, public health budget
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Questions?
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Contact:
Belinda WadsworthStrategy Adviser – Local and Regional Policyt. 0121 459 8952 m. 07740 040175e. [email protected]