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Money
On this page you can find out about ways to get more money for people with learning disabilities and some notes about some of the rules about money. A small amount of money for change came with Valuing People, called the Learning Disability Development Fund (LDDF). You can find out about this on the next page. |
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Note about NHS Capital Transfers
Valuing People said that everyone should move out of long stay hospitals. It said that people should not live in places owned by the NHS, like 'NHS campuses'. Across the country, people have been working hard to find people who do live in these places better places to live. A problem that has got in the way has been the rules about what you can use NHS money for. This paper explains a way that they can follow the rules and use the money to help
people live in better places. |
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Note about ILF
ILF stands for Independent Living Fund. It is money that some disabled people can get to help pay for them to live independently. Many people are unhappy that people who used to live in long stay hospitals cannot get this money. Here is a note that says what is happening to sort this out. "As you will know, advice from the Department of Health (including the Valuing People Support Team) has recently been that, whilst people with a learning
disability who have lived in a long stay hospital are not eligible to apply for ILF as they leave hospital, they are eligible to apply if they subsequently move again into the type of living arrangement that meets the wider ILF eligibility criteria. This position was reached in discussion between the Department of Health and Department for Work and Pensions. However, we have recently been informed that when this was considered by the ILF they took the view that, on the
evidence they had, they could not agree to this within their budget. They thus decided, with DWP support, to take the position that no-one with a learning disability who has ever lived in a long stay hospital would be eligible to apply for the ILF. The exception is people who can demonstrate that they were only in such a hospital for a short period of assessment and treatment. The ILF are now preparing a bid for more money which, if successful, will lead to a change in
this policy. This is a position that, in the opinion of the National Director for Learning Disabilities, Rob Greig, is unsatisfactory. Discussions are continuing between the DH and DWP about the issue. However, the advice from the Valuing People Support Team is that this is the current ILF/DWP position and thus it should be on this basis that individuals and local authorities plan services and funding." Note about money to build new buildings - and
'PFI' The money used to build new buildings or make big changes to buildings is called 'capital'. If Partnership Boards want to make plans to build new buildings or make big changes to old ones, they have to find this 'capital' money. There are different ways that they can do this. One of the ways is called the 'Private Finance Initiative' which is known as 'PFI'. Here, a private company borrows the money to build the building, and then the learning disability
service agrees to rent it off them for a long time. Some Partnership Boards may be thinking of doing this. This note is to help them decide if this is the right thing for them. |
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