Caerphilly Supporting People Needs Gathering

Meeting

Drivers• Welsh Government Legislation• SP Guidance• Regional Collaborative Committee• Caerphilly Single Integrated Plan• Welfare Reform• Lack of suitable accommodation• Support providers/Service users• What works – Best Practice

Strategic Linkages

• National strategies – Welsh Government – e.g. Housing Bill, Social services, anti poverty agenda

• Regional Strategies – Health, substance misuse, RCC, HVGAP

• Local – Single Integrated Plan, Family First, Communities First, NCN’s

Where does our Needs data come from?

Financial split of Caerphilly SP Services

Caerphilly - Accommodation and Floating support

Floating37%

Accommodation63%

% units and Timescales for support

24months +ACC56%

6-24 monthsACC2%

24months +FLO2%

less 6 monthsFLO1%

6-24 monthsFLO36%

less 6 monthsACC3%

61 units

43 units 701 units

ReferralsReferrals 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15

410

14 16 18 1922

384343

34

27

4640

47

3034

24

54

63

4450

82

69

61 5965

62

48

59 61 6369

64

95

83

98

8781

43

6770

86

72

102

113107

101

121

113

123

65

134

109114

81

116

126

6

53

65

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

April May June July August September October November December January February March

Nu

mb

er o

f R

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rals

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

Welfare Reform

• Bedroom (Under occupancy) Tax

• Benefit Cap• Single room rent

(Under 35)• Reassessment of ESA

and DLA/PIP• Council tax reform• Introduction of

Universal credit – Bron Afon Pilot

• DWP Sanctions - Increased conditionality – JSA, etc

• Increasing Debt• Increasing number of

successful appeals• Increased use of

Foodbanks• Increased use of

Discretionary Housing Payments

• Increased use of Discretionary Assistance Fund

• Increased use of SP Starter Packs

MediaRecent TV Programmes• Living on the never never• Benefits – Life on • the dole – Ch5• Benefits Street – Ch4• On Benefits and Proud – Ch 5• Living on the streets – Swansea• Homeless UK – Panorama• Foodbanks – On the Front Line BBC - Welfare reform 'takes toll on poor',

Citizens Advice Cymru claims 08.07.14

Welfare Reform

• WG Analysis of Welfare Reform

• NOMIS• Caerphilly – DWP Digital

Pilot• on average 41% of DLA

appeals and 42% of ESA appeals were won by the claimant

• Between Mar 2014 and Apr 2014 in Caerphilly the number of people claiming Job Seeker’s Allowance who are aged 17 to 24 has fallen from 1470 to 1390

• Between Aug 2013 (Qtr) and Nov 2013 (Qtr) in Caerphilly the percentage of working age people claiming Disability Living Allowance has fallen from 1.8% to 1.7%.

•This report estimates that Wales will lose just over £1 billion per year when all the changes are introduced. They further estimate this to be an average of £550 a year for every working aged adult,

PIP Claims – DWP Wales

Thousand

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

PIP new claims

386 378 381 381 387

PIP reassessed claims

191 401 754 369 34

Total PIP claims

577 779 1135 750 421

Homelessness

• Housing Bill 2015• HAC Homeless stats• Emergency Housing

stats• Lack 1 bed

accommodation• Shelter surgeries• Continuing high use

of b&b

• The number of households decided to be eligible, unintentionally homeless and in priority need has fallen from 265 to 245.

•MORI - two-thirds of tenants affected by the underoccupancy charge were in rent arrears and 38% indicated that they were in debt.

Shelter Cymru – Caerphilly Surgeries

• Reports in last six months seen 203 people main client group seen was single men and increase in single parent women

• Increase from 72.3% to 80.8% of people presenting in danger of losing their home.

• Increase in clients nor working from 78.5% to 82.2%

Shelter – Local Surgeries

• 1st Jan 2013 – 31st Dec 2013 – 476 cases ( 388 in 2012) –

• 1,434 housing problems presented

• 53% kept in own home• 19% homelessness

delayed

• 12% permanently rehoused

• Temporarily rehoused – 4%

• 24% la, 23% private sector and 23% owner occupied

CAB

• MORE than £11.7 million-worth of debt was handled by Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent’s Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) last year,

• Benefit continues as the biggest category of advice, but fell back to the same level as last year, down 8% from quarter 3; in contrast, debt enquiries rose by 17.5% against the same period last year.

•Advice on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) rose by 43% in quarter 4, its steepest ever quarter-on-quarter rise. It is 91.6% higher than the same quarter last year.

•Compared to the same quarter last year Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit advice increased by 103% and 110% respectively, we anticipate sharp future rises as the new regulations and restrictions take effect.

• Advice on Jobseekers Allowance rose by 56%.

Foodbanks

• Five food banks now in operation in New Tredegar, Blackwood, Risca and Caerphilly

Libanus Foodbank - Blackwood

Discretionary Housing Payments

• DHP Working group established

• Monitoring applications

• Refining application process

• Prioritising awards – Threatened homeless ness

• Tapering payments

• Increasing no of LA tenants• Stopgap measure• Issue – Hard to let 2 beds

• In Caerphilly, the numbers receiving Discretionary Housing Payments increased from 236 in 2012/13 to 937 in the first nine

months of 2013/14• The amount given to

struggling tenants has increased from £73,994.99 to £241,033.

Discretionary Assistance Payments

Local Authority area

Number of applications made to the fund

Number of awards made to applicants

Amount awarded in Quarter 1 April–June 2013 (£)Blaenau Gwent 206 98 31076.50

Caerphilly 504 259 66521.00

Merthyr Tydfil 176 99 18301.00

Monmouthshire 131 79 28427.00

Newport 418 223 62786.96

Rhondda Cynon Taff

748 366 76435.95

Torfaen 221 129 39332.90

TOTAL 8400 4290 1,052,331.19

Evidence of increasing Homelessness in B&B 2009 - 2012

Placements into Bed and Breakfast

149

213228

111143

168

31 40 41

0

50

100

150

200

250

2009/2010 2010/2011 2011/2012

Year

Nu

mb

ers

pla

ced

Bed and Breakfast

Male

Female

191 – 2013/14

 

ESTABLISHMENT 

 TOTAL SINCE 1/4/13 – 31/03/2014

  

Ty Fesen

 54

12 Couples with Dependant Children,27 Single Female Parents

4 Single Male Parents, 3 Couples, 3 Expectant Couples, 1 Expectant Single,

1 single male aged 60 +2 single females aged 60 +

1 Single Female aged 18 to 24  

   

Bed & Breakfast 

 191

5 Couples with Dependant Children, 11 Couples,

2 Expectant Singles,139 Single Males, 29 Single Females,

5 16/17 year olds.  

 Catrefi Hafod (Foundation)

 

 69

10 Couples with Dependant Children,15 Single Female Parents,

4 Single Male Parents, 2 Couples,3 Expectant Couples, 2 Expectant Singles,

25 Single Males, 8 Single Females,0 16/ 17 year olds. 

TOTAL 

314

Future Modelling – Homelessness increase based on 2011/12 figures –

Getting it wrong!

Projections of those needing temporary accommodation, based on 11% and 17% increases in

numbers for 2013/14

312402 423 470 495

0100200300400500600

2009/10 2010/2011 2011/2012 2013/14(11%

increase)

2013/14(17%

increase)

Year

Num

bers

314 – actual figure

Rough Sleepers

• 3 month Pilot with Churches – 330bed spaces offered

• Increasing referrals from Police and Town centres

• Cardiff Hostel Restrictions

• Housing Bill – Ex Offender issue

• Phoenix centre – Drugaid• 9 rough sleepers

currently identified in Caerphilly

• Corporate group established – cleansing, town center managers,community wardens, homeless, SP and Vol sector

Ex Offenders

• Reorganisation of the Probation Service

• Loss of Homeless Priority Status – Housing Bill

• Ex offender figs – who 12• Community

Rehabilitation Companies

• crime has been reduced by 15.7% in 2011-12 based on the same period of the previous year

• Evidence from the Caerphilly UNA shows that there are strong links between substance misuse and crime and ASB

• Reduce crime and the fear of crime for the residents of the county borough. - SIP

Mental Health

• I in 4 suffer MH issue in their life

• Wales Audit – Lack of sufficient supported accommodation

• Waiting list for MH support services

• Mental Health Services priority in SIP

• The mean mental component summary score for 2011&2012 was lower than the Welsh average, indicating poorer mental health and well-being.

• The Welsh Health Survey shows that the age standardised score for adults in the borough is 48.5 which is lower than the Wales score

Young People

• Lack of ‘move on’• Increasing time in

project• Waiting lists

increasing • Increasing

occurrence sanctions

• Increasing number of YP being found ‘in need’ by Children Services

• YP again being placed in b&b

• Increasing referrals from under 16 – Is there an educational issue? Family First

Domestic Violence

• Domestic Abuse and Housing in Wales – CIH

• Building Effective Responses: An Independent Review of Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Services in Wales

• Affects 11% of women and 5% of men each year in Wales

• Llamau women’s services – 2013/14101 individuals and families on scheme and on average carried a waiting list of 8 individuals

• 227 MARAC cases last year and 2567 cases were heard on the daily Domestic Abuse Conference Call.

• organised refuge accommodation for 103 women and their children, however there were an additional 59 women requiring refuge provision referred elsewhere

Vulnerable Adults/Families

• The Fiscal Case for Working with Troubled Families – DCLG

• Data demonstrates the highest number of children and young people on the Child Protection Register(CPR) are those experiencing neglect. As at 31stMarch 2012, 165 out of 290 children placed on the CPR were there because of neglect within the child’s home.

• states 27 per cent of children, 3.5 million, live in families whose income is 60 per cent below the UK average,

• Children living in workless households rate

• Under 18 conception rate • Looked after children

with 3 or more placements in year

• Improve the level of basic skills and the number of achieved qualifications (formal and non-formal) to improve the life opportunities for families. - SIP

Families First

Programme

Health Inclusion

Inclusion & Support

Advocacy

Family EngagementConfident

with Cash

Team Around the

Family

Integrated Family

Learning

Parenting Programme

Family Participation

Health Outreach

Supporting Family Change

Pathway to Inclusion

Family First Projects

Substance Misuse• Working Together to Reduce

Harm -Substance Misuse Delivery Plan2013 – 2015

• strong links between substance misuse and violence against the person (including domestic violence), robbery - SIP

• Rate of individuals referred to treatment for alcohol misuse increasing – social services

• Fynnon floating support waiting list

Problematic SubstancesMephadrone 29%Female poly drug misuse 25%Alcohol 18%Cannabis 14%Male poly drug misuse 10%Solvents 3%Alcohol and Diazepam 1%

• 69% increase in alcohol-related hospital admissions between 2002 - 2008 and a doubling in the number of deaths due to alcohol from 1992 - 2008

SP Guidance Aylwards Principle

• “…the eligibility criteria for older people receiving Supporting People funds should be based on need rather than age or tenure”

Caerphilly Population Projections

Older Persons

• WG - Older person questionnaire

• Gwent – Older person factsheet – RCC

• Around 50,000 older people in Wales live in severe poverty - on £183.50 or less a week, a report by Age Cymru has

found.

• Sheltered• Extra Care• Community

alarms/Telecare• Floating support

  Provider Scheme TypeAylward Position/timescales to meet

recommendationsNumber of

Schemes

No of Units/Ho

urs

Annual SP

Funding

Caerphilly

Public Housing Local Authority

Independent review undertaken, 4 sheltered schemes being decommissioned, clients in other sheltered schemes being classified into bronze, silver, gold support grading.

Agreed adoption of cluster model for sheltered and creation of OP floating support

scheme

33

934

£377,000

Public Housing AlarmsAll hardwired alarm systems in group

schemes being decommissioned. Tenants who require alarms are being supplied with

dispersed Units

  

 

United Welsh Housing

Association

Sheltered, Extra Care and

Alarms

Agreed that from September 2014, Caerphilly SP would form block contract for creation of floating support service – UWHA

would assess those requiring support

5120

£45,000

Wales and West Housing

AssociationSheltered

Agreed that from September 2014, Caerphilly SP would form block contract for creation of floating support service – WWHA

would assess those requiring support

3 

£14,000

Charter Housing Association

Extra Care Ongoing discussions with Charter 1 42 £14,025

ReachOlder Person

Floating SupportReferrals controlled through SP Team 1 80 £200,000

ReachDementia

Floating Support Service

Referrals from social services and Altziemers Society

1 20 £50,000

Age Cymru Gwent

Hospital Discharge

Service

Referrals from ABHB 1 20 33,000

Age Cymru Gwent

Benefit maximisation

service

Referrals though SP team and Age Cymru Gwent

180

45,000

Older Persons

• Move from hardwired to dispersed systems

• Increase floating support

• Review dementia services

• Pilot – support banding in sheltered

• Move from subsidy to block contracts – Quarterly payments

• Allow landlords to identify and respond to the housing support needs of the clients

Physical/Sensory Disabilities

• Continuing demand for sensory impairment services.

• High levels of ESA,DLA and Blue Badge

• Acquired Brain Injury

• Disability CANDO• Sight Support

Learning Disability

• 30% Caerphilly expenditure client group

• Use of tariffs• Lack individual

assessments• Lack of ‘move on’

evidenced

• Move to increasing floating support

• Integrate LD into the ‘move on’ process

• Introducing individual assessment process from 2014/15

Local Priorities

• Responding to effects of Welfare Reform• Responding to increasing effects of

Homelessness including rough sleeping and preventative services

• Expanding homeless related services – DA, MH, YP

• Responding to RCC priorities – LD/OP/Substance Misuse

Gwent Regional Commissioning Priorities

• Women experiencing domestic abuse o Women experiencing domestic abuse with complex needs o Women from a BME group affected by domestic abuse • Men experiencing domestic abuse • People with mental health issues o Floating support for people with dementia o Dual diagnosis -  mental health and substance misuse issues o Forensic mental health and offender services • People with alcohol issues: develop a Wethouse • People with criminal offending history: extend the prolific and priority offender project • People with developmental disorders • People with chronic illness • Young People with Support needs • Generic Floating Support o Gypsy / Traveller o Welfare Reform

Current Caerphilly Commissioning Programme

2013-2015

• Ty Fessen – 13 bed Homeless Emergency Housing

• Ty Oborne (8 bed MH)• Ty Croeso (10 bed SP

Hostel)• Hillcrest (5 bed

intermediate homeless supported housing)

• Garth Owen (YP – 6-8 Units)• Maes y Derwen – 18 bed YP

project (March 15)• Countryman –13 units

(March 15)

• Co-location of support workers in Housing Advice Center

• CAB Floating support• Assistance with DWP

appeals – Disability CANDO/Age Cymru Gwent

• Rough Sleepers Initiative• YP Accommodation Officer• Increasing hours on

cost/volume floating support for Homeless related services

The Future

• Uncertainty of future funding levels (5% =329k)

• Uncertainty around future roll out of welfare reform

• Uncertainty on effect of Housing Bill proposals

• Movement of SP funding from community care type projects to homelessness

Any Comments?

• Are there any gaps in support with Cearphilly?