Spending Review 2010: Equality Impact Assessment - Funding for the Supporting People Programme

Summary

This Equality Impact Assessment relates to the changes in national funding to the Supporting People programme, as set out in the Department's Spending Review 2010 announcement.

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The 2010/11 Supporting People allocation in 2010/11 is £2,847,600.

The table below provides a breakdown of the budget for 2010/11.

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Supporting People - Quarterly Client records and Outcomes - April - December 2010

Summary

Supporting People Client Records data provides information about characteristics of clients entering Supporting People services. This data is collected each time a client enters a housing related support service funded by Supporting People. Outcomes for short-term services data provide information about characteristics and outcomes achieved by clients leaving short-term Supporting People services. This data is collected each time a client exits a short-term (more than 28 days but less than two years) housing related support service funded by Supporting People.

The Supporting People Client Records and Outcomes data tables below provide a breakdown of; Client Records data by service type and primary client group and Outcomes for short-term services data by service type, primary client group and outcomes achieved against identified support needs.

Key provisional headline figures from the April to December 2010 data tables are;

• 164,000 Client Record forms were received.
• The most frequently occurring primary client group (ie predominant need of the client as defined by the service provider) is single homeless with support needs (26 per cent), followed by people at risk of domestic violence (11 per cent).
• 126,700 outcomes for short-term services forms were received.

Data Quality

Figures are as reported by providers of housing related support services; no estimates are made for missing returns.  Data is checked and validated by quality assessors at the Client Records and Outcomes Office based at the University of St Andrews. Validation is carried out according to set list of detectable errors and these errors are resolved by contacting the service provider submitting the data.

Methodology change

The method for calculating the percentage of clients achieving outcomes has been changed to exclude 'not applicable' cases from the denominator. This change affects the following outcomes; achieved qualifications, established contact with external services/groups and established contact with family/friends. The number of clients achieving these outcomes is not affected. This change results in a difference in reporting of the Q1-Q3 2010/11 figures as follows:

• 67 per cent (8,500) of clients leaving short-term Supporting People services achieved qualifications, as a proportion of those identifying a need. Under the previous method this would have been calculated as 20 per cent.
• 91 per cent (57,100) of clients leaving short-term Supporting People services established contact with external services/groups, as a proportion of those identifying a need. Under the previous method this would have been calculated as 88 per cent.
• 91 per cent (35,800) of clients leaving short-term Supporting People services established contact with friends/family, as a proportion of those identifying a need. Under the previous method this would have been calculated as 55 per cent.

Figures previously published on the DCLG website for Q1 2010/11 and Q1-2 2010/11 have been revised according to this new method of calculation.

Contact: SupportingPeople.statistics@communities.gsi.gov.uk.

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Council delivers death blow to leading self-advocacy organisation

One of the country’s leading self-advocacy organisations will be forced to close next month, after a council withdrew its funding without any warning.

Members of People First Lambeth (PFL), run by people with learning difficulties and set up in 1985, said the decision by Lambeth council not to renew annual contracts worth £118,000 meant it would close on 31 March.

The funding makes up 94 per cent of PFL’s annual revenue. Two people with learning difficulties will lose their jobs.

PFL members have trained doctors and other public sector workers, run support groups, and have written a book which is on the Royal College of Nursing’s recommended reading list.
PFL has worked with organisations such as the government’s Valuing People Now team and the Social Care Institute for Excellence.

The council’s decision came only two months after PFL members wrote to the prime minister and deputy prime minister to protest about the impact of the coalition’s spending cuts on people with learning difficulties. They have yet to receive a reply.

Georgina Barret, one of PFL’s members, said: “As far as I am concerned they sit on their butts and do all the paperwork but they don’t come and see how we operate and what we do.
“My message would be: you are not going to find an organisation like this and you are going to regret what you have done. It is very sad.”

Jennifer Taylor, another member, said: “I think it is very sad why the government have done this to us. I am disgusted. Where are people with learning difficulties going to go and what are they going to do with their lives?”

Lambeth council said it had to find savings of £79 million over three years, about a third of its budget, due to government cuts.
Cllr Jim Dickson, the council’s cabinet member for health and wellbeing, said: “We’ve worked hard to protect funding for dozens of organisations that do important work with vulnerable adults across the borough, but for a number of reasons, we have had to take the decision not to renew our contracts with People First Lambeth.”

He said the council planned to cut £200,000 from services for people with learning difficulties, less than one per cent of its spending in this area.

He added: “We will of course be working with People First Lambeth to make sure their clients are directed to other sources of support.”

To watch a film made by PFL about the decision to remove its funding, visit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=os9_5pmXUUw

http://www.dls.org.uk/rights/News/2011/february/18.html

http://moderngov.redbridge.gov.uk/Published/C00000267/M00005444/AI00043297/$FinanceSettlement.docA.ps.pdf

Breakdown of Exemption
Exemption
Section 21 – Information accessible through other means
Information Exemption applies to
Details of grant allocations
Reasons for applying Exemption
Available via CLG Site:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/localgovernment/localgovernmentfinance/are...
Public Interest Test
This exemption is not subject to the Public Interest Test

There are 70 services currently funded through the Supporting People (SP) programme for a total of 3032 people in the community.

The breakdown of the spend for 2010/2011 by client group is as follows:

Client Group    No. of People Supported Funding (£)    
Older People
        2408    £832,433.02    
People with Physical Disability /Sensory Disability     91      £60,972
People with Mental Health Problems
        77      £995,686       
People with learning disabilities
        95      £1,125,496     
Leaseholders
        5       £2241.37       
Women Escaping Domestic Violence
        15      £139,729       
Young People at risk
        70      £504,000       
Rough Sleepers
        27      £424,390       
People with Drugs & Alcohol Problems
        21      £64,000
People living with HIV
        25      £100,000       
Ex offenders Prolific Persistent Offenders Service      40      £82,487
Ex offenders service
        8       £40,000
Generic
        150     £530,000       
Total
        3032    £4,991,259    
 

For Supporting People,

2009-2010... Budget £18,033
Spend £17,852 2010-2011 Budget £16,237
Forecast £16,314
The spend is in following categories;
Vulnerable Adults £ 7,108,944
Younger People £ 2,392,243
Mental Health £ 2,582,257
Older People £ 2,817,584
Physical and sensory disabilities & HIV £ 376,842
Learning Disabilities £ 1,036,801
Totals £ 16,314,671 Budget 2010 -11 £ 16,237,144

LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT BUDGETTED SPEND SUPPORTING PEOPLE PROGRAMME 2010-11

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Provider Projected Spend for 2010/11
Abbeyfield Ickenham 2,700
Abbeyfield Uxbridge 10,329
Abilty Housing Group 251,967
Acton HA 103,493
Anchor Trust 18,428
Age UK 51,733
London Cyrenians Hsg 56,873
CATALYST 61,773
English Churches (Riverside) 9,442
Epic 0
Frays (Paradigm) 72,795
Hanover HA 749
Hillingdon Mind 94,330
LIVABILITY HOUSING (Habin 19,921
Hestia Housing Care and Sup 106,273
Hillingdon Homes 1,275,387
Look Ahead 301,679
LBH - Social Services 362,731
Mencap 140,720
Moat Housing 0
NHHT 120,519
DIMENTIONS (OWL) Ltd 107,211
PROJECT 2041 T/A P3 284,636
Radicle 44,819
Richmond Fellowship 315,741
SBHA 275,650
CENTRAL AND CECIL 7,620
West London YMCA 577,874
STONHAM 506,026
ST Mungoes 70,664
Trinity Homeless 214,011
Yarrow 270,478
L B HAMMERSMITH & FULH 46,000
LEASEHOLDERS 3,000
16+ Team 0
TOTAL 5,785,572
Cost of Advertising 1,600
Total Spend 5,787,172
Budget 5,454,100