1. Housing – Thinking Locally and
Acting Personally
Craig Derry – Director of Strategic Planning &
Commissioning

2. Keeping up with the Camerons
• Health & Social Care Bill – Partnerships across public services
and wider - Health & Wellbeing Boards “localism in action”
• Public Health White Paper – move into Local Government
• Health, Social Care and Public Health operating frameworks
• Open Public Services White Paper – Individual Services,
Neighbourhood Services, Commissioned Services
• A vision for adult social care – ‘Capable communities and active
citizens’
• Dilnot Commission's ‘Fairer Care Funding’ report
• Law Commission review of Adult Social Care law
• Welfare Reform Bill
• Community budgets – integrating funding
• CSR – “we have no money”
• Importance of Housing on quality of life as a common thread
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3. Setting the scene
• Today is an opportunity to reflect on the changes we’ve seen and
those to come
• Common themes echoed in Social Care Vision – Prevention,
Personalisation, Partnerships, Plurality, Protection, Productivity,
People. Delivered via localism and “any willing provider”
• Focus for today on challenges facing the provision of housing for
vulnerable people, and the solutions we need
• The key to success is partnership; between ECC, district
councils, providers, and between professionals and service users
and communities
• Our shared agenda is to achieve a sustainable model, providing
positive outcomes for vulnerable people
• Think Local, Act Personal – 2011- Importance of Housing
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4. care. We are pleased this agreement is now confirmed as the way forward for our work on
Transforming Adult
Social Care
Coproduction
Group
For a full list of organisations who endorse this partnership agreement, please visit
www.puttingpeoplefirst.org.uk
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5. “An effective community-based approach is achieved when Councils
and their partners:
1. Secure greater cooperation and better use of resources across public
services to improve individuals’ and their families experiences,
including housing, leisure, culture, transport, health, welfare benefits,
employment support, social care and community safety.
2. Facilitate a broad range of choice in the local care and support
market, including housing options, and personalise the way in which
care and support services are delivered wherever people live.
3. Work closely with private and social housing providers to continue
developing a wide range of options that enable independent living”.
“Greater focus on the development of suitable housing and supported-
living options will be required in the transition from outmoded models
and housing stock”.
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6. What does ‘Thinking Local, Acting
Personal’ mean for us?
• Specifically: Promoting the delivery of a broader range of
housing/accommodation designed to offer more supportive living
environments to people with care and support needs
• An enduring commitment to personalisation – more users
empowered to commission their own services. We need a market
which can respond (including those who fund their own housing &
care)
• Emphasis on prevention and community-based care – how will our
approach to housing need to respond to this?
• Local leaders need to ensure greater co-operation in use of
resources and provision of services
• ECC - £300,000 to expand the provision
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7. The challenges…
Funding pressures:
• Central Government funding reductions
• Pressures on local government budgets
• Challenges for the housing sector - funding, land, building industry
• Dilnot Commission has recommended major changes to the funding
of adult social care – impact?
Demographic pressures:
• Older people make up a larger demographic in Essex than
nationally, and population as a whole is ageing faster than nationally
• Increasing rates of Dementia requiring more sophisticated ways of
providing services
• Increasing diagnosis of learning disabilities and projected increase
in physical impairment
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8. Accommodation Options
• Strategic Direction - decrease dependence on residential care
solutions and support an increase in people enabled to live
independently
• This will require a range of accommodation options and services
able to meet peoples personalised requirements. What’s new?
What do other counties do? More of the same?
• Physical environment is vital to the long term success of the
prevention agenda – housing needs to enable independence, for
example with greater use of Assistive Technology or adaptations
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9. To achieve this…
“Here is Edward Bear,coming
downstairs now, bump, bump, bump,
on the back of his head, behind
Christopher Robin. It is, as far as
he knows, the only way of coming
downstairs, but sometimes he feels
that there really is another way, if only
he could stop bumping for a moment
and think of it”
A.A. Milne 1926
Illustration E.H.Shepard 192614

10. Today we will …………….
• Take a look at
Prevention and Housing
Housing’s role in building community capacity
The future of housing options for older people
The Essex approach to Extra Care
Local initiatives such as the Housing Brokerage
Opportunity to open a dialogue between commissioners and
providers – what we can offer each other
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