{"id":2257,"date":"2016-07-11T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2016-07-11T13:33:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:33:17","slug":"attendance-allowance-local-government-examining-evidence-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/attendance-allowance-local-government-examining-evidence-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Attendance Allowance and Local Government: Examining the evidence and the options"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do the government’s plans for devolving Attendance Allowance to local government mean for councils, older people and care providers?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The government has proposed transferring Attendance Allowance from the DWP to local authorities, as part of its plans to reform local government financing and give councils new spending responsibilities.<\/p>\n

Attendance Allowance is a cash payment that currently supports around 1.24 million older people in England with the costs of living with a disability, regardless of their financial means or whether they receive any care.<\/p>\n

In this way, the Attendance Allowance system reaches significantly more people than the local authority adult social care system, represents a different type of public spending and rests on a profoundly different underlying philosophy.<\/p>\n

While the government has promised to protect existing recipients, moving Attendance Allowance into local government would represent a historic change affecting millions of older people in future.<\/p>\n

This report reviews academic research on the reach and distributional effects of Attendance Allowance, and evaluates the pros and cons of options for transferring it to local authorities.<\/p>\n

You can download a copy of this report here:<\/p>\n

Attendance Allowance and Local Government – Examining the evidence and the options<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This report has been made possible by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Accounts of the Universities of East Anglia and Essex.<\/p>\n

Author:<\/strong> James Lloyd, Director, Strategic Society Centre<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do the government’s plans for devolving Attendance Allowance to local government mean for councils, older people and care providers?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14,36,91],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474.jpg",2048,1365,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474.jpg",2048,1365,false],"et-pb-post-main-image":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-400x250.jpg",400,250,true],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-1080x675.jpg",1080,675,true],"et-pb-portfolio-image":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-400x284.jpg",400,284,true],"et-pb-portfolio-module-image":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-510x382.jpg",510,382,true],"et-pb-portfolio-image-single":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-1080x720.jpg",1080,720,true],"et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-400x516.jpg",400,516,true],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth-large":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474.jpg",2048,1365,false],"et-pb-image--responsive--desktop":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-1280x853.jpg",1080,720,true],"et-pb-image--responsive--tablet":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-980x653.jpg",827,551,true],"et-pb-image--responsive--phone":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/152977474-480x320.jpg",405,270,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Trevor Sather","author_link":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/author\/trevor-2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"What do the government’s plans for devolving Attendance Allowance to local government mean for councils, older people and care providers?\u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}