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795670

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Home Care Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will earmark funding to support the recruitment and retention of carers who provide personal homecare visits.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	116024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>In 2017/18 the Department has provided Skills for Care with funding of £22.3 million to deliver the Department’s adult social care workforce priorities including the recruitment and retention of domicilliary care workers.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/12/2017 13:10:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

637833

registered interest
date	16/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Home Care Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that local authorities do not commission 15-minute homecare visits for personal care in the circumstances set out as not appropriate for such a length of visit in paragraph 4.101 of the Department of Health's Care and Support Statutory Guidance.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
uin	53192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>The statutory guidance to the Care Act 2014 is clear that local authorities should commission services to meet the needs of individuals and that very short home care visits would not normally be compatible with high quality care.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are responsible for commissioning decisions, accountable to their local populations through elected members. The Government does not routinely intervene in individual decisions, but both the Government and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) agree that inappropriately short home care visits are unacceptable.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has worked with local government and the care sector to develop and encourage good practice in commissioning and managing local markets. A suite of guidance is now available at the online Hub that is now published on GOV.UK under market shaping and commissioning.</p><p> </p><p>In particular, the guidance ‘Commissioning for Better Outcomes’ (under Resources for Commissioners) is being actively used in the sector to improve commissioning and directly asks commissioners to review how short home care visits are used.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the Local Government Association (LGA) and ADASS through a sector-led improvement approach to encourage best practice and improve local commissioning skills. Specifically, the Department funds the LGA to deliver the Care Health Improvement Programme.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 23/11/2016 16:09:19 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce

449297

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Home Care Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many home visits were provided to adult social care clients (a) in total and (b) per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over in each English local authority in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	24975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2016 answer text <p>We are informed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre that the information requested is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 08/02/2016 13:00:29 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

421722

registered interest
date	15/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Home Care Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that carers are able to give each patient an appropriate amount of time on visits.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
uin	12117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2015 answer text <p>In most cases, very short visits from care workers are incompatible with high quality care. However, short visits may be appropriate in certain circumstances. For instance, checking medication has been taken.</p><br /><p>Local authorities are responsible for the commissioning of services, not the Government but both Government and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) agree that inappropriately short home care visits are unacceptable.The Care Act sends a clear message that commissioning services without properly considering the impact on people’s wellbeing is unacceptable.</p><br /><p>In September 2015, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published guidelines on homecare which state that homecare visits should not normally be less than 30 minutes long. The Department published statutory guidance to the Care Act which directs local authorities when commissioning to consider national standards including NICE guidelines.</p><br /><p>Further, the Department worked with ADASS and the Local Government Association (LGA) to produce a framework of standards, ‘Commissioning for Better Outcomes’ which explicitly states that inappropriate use of short visits is not compatible with best practice. The framework is designed to support local authorities to improve their commissioning practices using self-assessment and peer challenge through the LGA’s programme of sector-led improvement.</p><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/10/2015 13:23:58 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

417287

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Home Care Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment teams operating in England and Wales offer 24-hour home visits seven days a week.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	9323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 9325 question first answered 10/09/2015 15:05:01 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner