Adult Social Care and Public Health
We won’t be looking for savings in these crucial services this time, but will continue the investment we agreed last year which is starting to pay off as we integrate health and social care services through neighbourhood teams aiming to reduce demand for long-term care and acute services. We’re further investing in social workers, new home care and ‘extra-care’ services, and greater support for residential and nursing care providers. Meeting the additional need for services, inflation and pay would amount to further investment of £11.2million next year plus further £8.8million to keep to this year’s level of service and £2.8million investment on extra-care housing and health programmes that will cut demand for expensive services such as residential and nursing care, and A&E visits.
In 2020/21 we will spend £224.28million- an additional £23.346million- on these services including:
- £60.6m on services for adults with learning disabilities such as supported accommodation, short breaks and ‘shared lives’ live-in and other support
- £24.3m on mental health services including those provided by NHS Greater Manchester Mental Health
- £5.3m on ‘reablement’ to get people independent at home after injury or illness
- £46.3m on care for vulnerable adults who need daily living support such as homecare and residential and nursing for older people
- £40m on public health programmes that keep people well and prevent future illness
- £9.6m on social work and other social care support in neighbourhood-based teams integrated with community health
- £2.2m to ensure vulnerable people are properly safeguarded
- £11.3m on adult social care services provided by other organisations
- £13.2m to be allocated in 2019/20 and 2020/21 for national living wage, inflation and pay for externally contracted and internally provided social care services
- The remaining £7.9m of this budget supports voluntary sector partners working in adult social care, covers inflation and wage costs, and the cost of running our adult social care services.
Additional funding for this would include £7m of social care grant, a ‘winter pressure’ grant, plus help for ‘better care’, and local health funding.
See the full Adult Social Care and Population Health budget