Transcript Supporting People Savings Proposals

Supporting People Update and
Savings Proposals
Glyn Meacher
Supporting People Manager
Savings Proposals - Background
• Over the last three years the City Council has
needed to save 97 million
• Over the next three years this will increase by £25
million per year
• As a result the Directorate were asked to analyse
each service area against an emerging new offer
to vulnerable people
• All proposals were then fed through the Councils
budget setting process including detailed
conversations with Elected Members and the City
Mayor
Vulnerable Persons Offer
• New vulnerable persons offer based on
funding those services which
– Are contributing to meeting the statutory needs of
the Council
– Are meeting the priorities contained within the
Health and Wellbeing strategy
– Where there are no alternative funding sources
available
– Are impacted by welfare reform
Consultation process
• 4 of the savings proposals form part of the Councils
consultation process on the vulnerable persons offer and
its impact in 14/15
• Consultation began on 3rd March and lasts until May 25th.
• Individual support is being given to users of services and
stakeholder events organised. SP focused stakeholder
events 3rd and 10th April
• Results of consultation, CIA and proposals, with any
revisions will then be considered by Commissioning Body
in May and then the Assistant Mayor – Services for adults
and older people in June
The proposals
• Proposals detailed below are subject to
consultation within the Vulnerable persons
offer
– Withdraw all Supporting People funding from the Home Improvement
Agency service, leaving a reduced amount of City Council funding
available for the service
– Withdraw all SP funding from Salford Offender service, leaving a small
amount of Probation funding available to support a service
– Withdraw all Supporting People funding for a support service for
deaf/blind people where people who fit into substantial/critical FACS
criteria are likely to be able to continue to access individual support
– Withdraw all funding for tenancy and floating support thereby relying
on Landlords supporting their own tenants
Additional proposals
• A number of other proposals have been, or have been previously been
approved, and will support delivering the necessary savings. These are
– Completion of the transfer of services for Domestic Abuse to the management of
the City Council and re-designing accommodation provision
– Re-modelling of support and care in extra-care housing and tendering part of the
service provision
– Reducing the capacity within Supported Lodgings
– Redesigning mental health supported accommodation provision – From April 15
– Re-designing temporary accommodation provision for homeless families
– Removing funding for groups for the visually impaired which will continue to be
supported by the existing provider through their own business model
– Transfer of money from public health to the SP programme for Domestic Abuse
and Drug and Alcohol services