Practical approaches to building and sustaining community capacity

Martin Routledge: Head of Operations In Control

The Adult Social Care Reform Timeframe

Social Care Vision

__________Nov 2010

Law Commission

Report__________

May 2011

Dilnot Commission

Report__________

_July 2011

Caring for our future -

engagement_________Sept - Dec

2011

Care and Support

White Paper and

progress report on funding

__________

April 2012

Legislation

•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.

Slide courtesy of DH

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 FundFinancial resources that are under the control of a community being used to achieve outcomes that have been agreed with commissioning agencies

Community Fund Community Planning Review &Evaluation

• Provide a focus for and a ring fence on the usage of money

• Link to democratic accountability

• Localised decisions

• Capacity to mix social and statutory resources

• Capacity to measure impact of money against outcomes

• Share learning across a community

Want to know more?

John Waters – Head of Innovation

john.waters@in-control.org.uk

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