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If All the Care Homes in Your Area Are No.624 June 2018 www.local.gov.uk the magazine for local government Interview: “If all the care homes in your area are about to go under, how would you prevent that?” Abdool Kara, Executive Leader, Local Services, National Audit O ce 18 10 16 23 Local elections Metro mayors Care in Wales All the results from Devolution one Invest equally in the May polls year on health and care LGA FIRST 624 June 18 pp01.indd 1 25/05/2018 14:25 WE ARE NEWTON We deliver better finances, improved outcomes and lasting change. Using our evidence based approach, we get to a level of detail which means we can build a real picture of what’s happening in an organisation, or system. We then put our people on the ground to work alongside frontline teams to design and implement change from the ground up. We believe so strongly in this approach that we guarantee 100% of our fee against delivering real sustainable results that are measurable and recognised by everyone. Our clients are not only saving millions of pounds a year. One county council has reduced Child in Need and Child Protection caseload numbers by 29% through decreasing case drift. Another is supporting 50% more service users to become independent post enablement. One system has reduced placements into long term care from acute discharge by 59%. www.newtoneurope.com LGANEW0201_LGA_AC_First_Magazine_Ad_V5.indd FIRST 624 June 18 pp02-03 Contents.indd 2 1 25/05/201822/05/2018 14:2815:30 WE ARE NEWTON All change t’s been a busy time since contents We deliver better finances, improved outcomes and lasting change. Ithexxxx last edition of rst. XTherexxxxxx have been some importantLord Porter developments is Chairman Using our evidence based approach, we get to a level of detail which means –of on the building LGA regulations news interview we can build a real picture of what’s happening in an organisation, or system. and funding for replacing combustible cladding, 4 Academy nances 7 Children’s mental 18 Abdool Kara, Executive We then put our people on the ground to work alongside frontline teams to following the Grenfell Children’s teeth health Leader, Local Services, at the National Audit design and implement change from the ground up. We believe so strongly in Tower re (see p5); on xed odds betting 5 Hackitt report Bright Futures terminals (p6); and on planning and shale O c e Help with this approach that we guarantee 100% of our fee against delivering real exploration (p8). Funding for replacing cladding housing “The adult social sustainable results that are measurable and recognised by everyone. We also have a new Secretary of State care sector is slightly (see p24) and, of course, I’m delighted to Business rates 8 Fly-tipping crisis further advanced Our clients are not only saving millions of pounds a year. One county council welcome many of you as newly elected 6 Adult social care Shale developments than the children’s councillors following the local elections in sector in terms of has reduced Child in Need and Child Protection caseload numbers by 29% May. The LGA can o er you a lot of help and Fixed odds betting Clean air support as you settle into your new roles, and terminals self-improvement through decreasing case drift. Another is supporting 50% more service users a good starting point is the LGA’s Councillors Water safety and understanding to become independent post enablement. One system has reduced Guide 2018/19 (p31). good practice” This edition includes elections analysis placements into long term care from acute discharge by 59%. from our resident poll pundits Professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (p10), and there is advice on leadership from one of 8 our longest-serving council leaders (p30). We also have an introduction to a series of think pieces we are producing on adult 5 social care, in the run-up to the Government’s much anticipated Green Paper on the subject (p12). And the Welsh LGA reports on rising pressures on adult social care services in Wales (p23). Finally, a year on from their election, we hear from the six established combined authority mayors about the bene ts of devolution (p16). Lord Porter is Chairman of the LGA 18 Editor Karen Thornton Design & print CPL www.cpl.co.uk Advertising [email protected] Write to rst: Local Government Association 18 Smith Square, London 29 SW1P 3HZ Email [email protected] Tel editorial 020 7664 3294 Tel advertising 01223 378 042 Photography Getty Images and iStock.com unless otherwise stated Circulation 18,200 (May 2018) rst is published online at www.local.gov.uk/ rst at least two days before the magazine. To unsubscribe 10 email [email protected] The inclusion of an advert or insert in rst does 23 features not imply endorsement by the LGA of any product regulars or service. Contributors’ views are their own 10 Local election results comment and do not necessarily re ect the opinions 29 Parliament – nancial or policies of the LGA. 12 Why does adult social 23 Social care in Wales sustainability care matter? 24 LGA chairman and 30 Councillor – leadership 14 Learning disabilities group leaders advice 15 Membership survey 26 Unitary councils 31 Councillor – guidance 16 Metro mayors 27 Local lotteries for new members June 2018 first contents | 3 www.newtoneurope.com NEW0201_LGA_AC_First_Magazine_Ad_V5.indd 1 22/05/2018 15:30 LGA FIRST 624 June 18 pp02-03 Contents.indd 3 25/05/2018 14:28 news in brief Free childcare report by the National Association of A Head Teachers has found that early years providers are struggling to deliver the Government’s 30-hours free childcare offer because of a lack of funding. Less than a fifth (19 per cent) of respondents said that the news funding they received was sufficient to cover their costs. Cllr Roy Perry, Vice-Chairman of the LGA’s Children and Young People Board, said: “Councils need to have both adequate ‘Academies need oversight’ funding and sufficient local flexibility to work with their providers to ensure that all families have access to high quality care that meets their needs.” SEN support third of councils in England are A planning to cut their budgets for deaf children, according to data obtained by the National Deaf Children’s Society from Freedom of Information requests. Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the LGA’s Children and Young People Board, said: “Councils know that deafness can make life incredibly di cult for some children. They take their responsibilities to support not just The LGA has urged the Government to take control than council-maintained schools, deaf children, but all those with special control of academies in nancial trouble or and that they are in better nancial health. educational needs or disabilities, let councils step in and oversee them. But the gures, where they are available, through education extremely seriously. This follows a series of reports that show that many academies are running up This is why we are calling for an have raised concerns over the nancial de cits and there are serious questions about urgent review of funding to meet the management of academies. According nancial governance in many academies. unprecedented rise in demand for to the Kreston UK accountancy network, “What we need is greater transparency in support from children with special eight in 10 academies are in de cit, and how academies are managing their nances educational needs and disabilities.” academy trusts are failing because of poor and urgent action taken to balance the books nancial governance. where necessary. The Public Accounts Committee has “Councils, which have vast experience also said that academy trusts need to show running large budgets, are best placed the highest standards of governance, to do this. This would ensure democratic Tooth decay down accountability and nancial management, accountability, and give parents the certainty and that many trusts are falling short. and con dence of knowing that their child’s ooth decay in five-year-olds continues And in a recent report on academisation, school is able to deliver the best possible Tto decline, with 23.3 per cent having the National Audit O ce recommended that education and support, without risk of decayed, missing or filled teeth in 2017, the Department for Education (DfE) should nancial failure.” compared with 30.9 per cent in 2008, apply nancial risk and due diligence tests to Separately, the Government has according to Public Health England. Children all academies and trustees. announced £50 million for grammar school in deprived areas are more likely to have Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the LGA’s expansion and new plans for expanding bad teeth. Cllr Izzi Seccombe, Chairman of Children and Young People Board, said: faith schools with funds being given to the LGA’s Community Wellbeing Board, said: “We urge the Government to get faltering local authorities. “Tooth decay is largely preventable, yet is academy nances under control, or allow Cllr Watts said: “Government should the most common oral disease affecting councils to step in and oversee them, as they not just focus exclusively on selective, faith children and young people. The findings of do with council-maintained schools that face schools and free schools. The most e ective this survey highlight the need for urgent nancial challenges. way to set up new schools and meet demand investment in oral health education so that “The DfE cannot have e ective oversight for places would be to give councils the parents and children understand the impact of spending in more than 7,000 academies.
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