A vision for adult social care in Birmingham
Please note this consultation ended on Wednesday 2 March 2011.
Cabinet report 'Consultation Outcome on the Universal Resource Allocation System and Citizen Statement'. This report will be available after 5pm on Friday 4 March. Please click here for help to find a copy of the report.
A copy of the presentation by Peter Hay 'Consultation findings to date' is at the end of this page.
Why were we consulting with you?
As part of its plan to reduce the national deficit by reducing public expenditure, the Government has set out a vision and plans for health and care services. You can read more about the Government's plans for adult social care services on the web page A vision for adult social care, which is on the Department of Health website.
The Government's plans affect all local councils, including us in the Adults and Communities directorate of Birmingham City Council. These plans mean we have to find new and better ways to provide support for people with social care needs, but with less money and resources. To do this, we need to listen to people in Birmingham who are affected by these changes, to make sure that they are fair as possible for the people who need and use our services.
What were we consulting about?
We asked you for your views on:
- the fairest way to allocate the money we spend to meet the social care needs of adults in Birmingham
- our proposals for how we respond to the Government's spending review savings, and how we can deliver adult social care services in the future with a reduced budget
- our proposals for using less public money to fund services for adults who have the highest social care needs
- how we will develop ways to improve voluntary, community and other types of support to meet the needs of vulnerable people.
Adult Education was not part of this consultation, because it is directly funded by the Government and is part of a separate review.
New 'My Care In Birmingham' adult social care websiteOne of the ways we are proposing to develop the fairest way to allocate the money we spend is to introduce a new Birmingham adult social care website, 'My Care In Birmingham'. We have launched the ‘information and advice’ part of the new website, and we asked for your views on the ‘assessment’ part. |
Working more closely with HealthIn the consultation document (question 2d on page 16), the questionnaire (2d, page 8) and the easy read questionnaire (2d, page 11), we asked you for your views about us working more closely with Health (the National Health Service or 'NHS'). We are meeting with the NHS to make sure that the money we get from from Health, to provide services in partnership with them, is used effectively to keep people out of care and help them stay independent in their own home. Click here to read the notes of our meeting with the NHS on 21 January 2011. Click here to read our proposals for how we could use the money from the NHS. If you would like more information about these documents, please contact Alan Lotinga by phone on 0121 465 2965 or by email to alan.lotinga@bhwp.nhs.uk. |
How did we consult with you?
We asked for the views of service users, carers, city council staff, our health partners, organisations that provides adult social care services in both the private and voluntary sectors, and the general public. We used questionnaires, emails, a public phone line, and consultation events. We have published as widely as possible what we found out from the consultation and the next steps we will take, and will write a report about what we have found out through this consultation.
For more information, please see page 6 of the consultation document below.
The briefing session on 2 December 2010Please click on the picture below to read the December 2010 version of the presentation, given at the briefing session by Peter Hay, Strategic Director for Adults and Communities at Birmingham City Council: The January 2011 version of the presentation is under the heading Consultation documents and questionnaire below. |
How long did this consultation run for?
This consultation began on Thursday 2 December 2010 and ended on Wednesday 2 March 2011.
How you can give us your views
The consultation has now ended. If you would like more information about the consultation, our contact details are below.
More information and contact details
If you have any questions about the consultation, please contact us by:
- phone: 0121 303 4044
- email: socialcarevision@Birmingham.gov.uk
or write to
Social Care Vision Consultation
Birmingham City Council
Adults and Communities
Customer Care and Citizen Involvement Team
Milton Grange
16 Handsworth Wood Road
Birmingham
B20 2DR.
Other pages
A vision for adult social care in Birmingham consultation events
Adults and Communities home page
Talk to us
How to give us your views about the services we provide for adults in Birmingham
Did You Know?
How we are changing to a more personal approach to adult social care in Birmingham
Other websites
A vision for adult social care page on the Department of Health website
My Care in Birmingham: http://www.mycareinbirmingham.org.uk
Consultation documents and questionnaires
If you would like any of our leaflets, forms or other documents in another language, in Braille, in large print or on audio tape, MP3 or CD, please phone the Communications team on 0121 464 3123. All our adult social care leaflets, forms and documents are free in any format.
Arabic versions of the easy read consultation document and questionnaire:
Please click here for an Arabic language version of the easy read consultation summary document.
Please click here for an Arabic language version of the easy read consultation questionnaire.