Practical approaches to building and
sustaining community capacity
Martin Routledge: Head of Operations In Control
The Adult Social Care Reform Timeframe
Law
Commission
Report
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May 2011
Social Care
Vision
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Nov 2010
•Caring for our future brings together the
recommendations from the Law Commission,
Commission on the Funding of Care and Support
with the Government’s Vision for Adult Social Care,
to discuss with stakeholders what the priorities for
reform should be.
Caring for our
future engagement
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Sept - Dec
2011
Dilnot
Commission
Report
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July 2011
Care and
Support
White Paper
and
progress
report on
funding
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April 2012
Slide courtesy of DH
Legislation
What about Social Capital?
• Networks of support and community action a
strong element in the Government’s vision
for adult social care, Capable Communities
and Active Citizens
• DH advice alongside the vision A practical
guide - Building Stronger Communities
• Sector-led partnership Think Local Act
Personal
Think Local Act Personal
• People and communities will play a bigger role
in supporting themselves and others
• Focus on prevention – joint working, make the
most of universal services, invest in community
capacity
• Change in workforce culture and practices –
support should promote greater community
connection
TLAP Building Community Capacity project
(led by Catherine Wilton)
• Exploring initiatives that aim to provide support and
facilitate the contribution of older and disabled
people while reducing demand for intensive
targeted services
• Gathering evidence of impact and cost
effectiveness of interventions
• Reviewing effective low cost approaches to
evaluation
www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/BCC
Case studies of types of intervention
• Place shaping and commissioning
• Community development, community navigating,
promoting connections within neighbourhoods
• Personalised service provision and innovation in
primary prevention & universal services
• Time-banks, encouraging participation,
volunteering
• Self-directed support and personal budgets
The economic case
Professor Martin Knapp and colleagues
at LSE researching interventions for
community capacity building - the
economic case for investment
Early research
• Cost per time bank member averages less than
£450 per year… but could result in savings and
other economic pay-offs of more than £1300
per member
• Befriending costs are typically about £80 per
older person but savings could be c.£35 in the
first year alone because of reduced need for
treatment and support for mental health needs
Early research
• Cost of community navigators - less
than £300 per person but economic
benefits - less time lost at work, savings
in benefits payments and fewer GP visits
could be £900 per person in the first
year
Practical products
• ‘Does it Work? A guide to evaluating
community capacity projects’
• ‘Are we there yet? A checklist and
planning tool for building community
connections’
Building Capacity - need for a new model?
• The role of passive recipient is well
embedded
• Challenges of adult social care impact
widely
• In the interest of corporate local authority
and partners to act together
• But disincentives to do so, cultural
inhibitions and need for more effective
approaches
Community Fund Holding
• is a budgeting model which further refines the
devolved decision making approaches that some
have already been adopting
• builds on our learning from self directed support
and seeks to share power and resources in a way
that enables commissioners and communities to
recognise and act on their shared interests
• is designed to allow each party to understand its
role in a new relationship and to bring their own
unique contribution
Community fund holding model
Community fund holding
Community Fund holding
Builds on the learning of self directed support, applied at a community rather than
an individual level.
A Community Fund
Financial resources that are under the control of a community being used to
achieve outcomes that have been agreed with commissioning agencies
Community Fund
• Provide a focus for and a
ring fence on the usage of
money
• Link to democratic
accountability
Community Planning
• Localised decisions
• Capacity to mix social
and statutory resources
Review &Evaluation
• Capacity to measure
impact of money
against outcomes
• Share learning across
a community
Want to know more?
John Waters – Head of Innovation
[email protected]
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