May. 24 2024
Source Page: Summary of published RPC OpinionsFound: development right for the change of use of commercial, business and service uses to dwelling houses]Department
Correspondence May. 24 2024
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: I urge HMCTS to work with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, local authorities
Report May. 24 2024
Committee: Environmental Audit CommitteeFound: for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, Government response to the National Infrastructure Commission
Report May. 24 2024
Committee: Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee (Department: Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities)Found: for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Report May. 24 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: MoJ says it is now working with other government departments such as the Department for Levelling Up
Correspondence May. 24 2024
Committee: Scottish Affairs Committee (Department: Scotland Office)Found: my view that Laurence Rockey, Director of the Scotland Office, and a senior civil servant from the Department
Mentions:
1: Dehenna Davison (Con - Bishop Auckland) Let me pay a small tribute once more to the brilliant team at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing - Speech Link
2: Marcus Jones (Con - Nuneaton) Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark) at what was the Department for Communities and Local Government, and then the Department - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase investment in children’s services and provide updated funding formulae to (1) direct resources according to deprivation-based need, and (2) account for changing levels of deprivation.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The government is aware the costs of delivering children’s social care are rising, which is why the department has already taken action and announced a series of additional measures:
This additional funding illustrates our commitment to support councils in continuing to deliver high-quality services to vulnerable children and families.
But the department knows that rising costs are unsustainable and that whole system reform is needed. It is more important than ever that the department continues with the plans to improve and stabilise the children’s social care system. The department's ambitious strategy, set out in ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ will bring about fundamental reform, rebalancing local authority spending from costly acute services to effective earlier intervention, thereby improving outcomes for children and families. More information can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/642460653d885d000fdade73/Children_s_social_care_stable_homes_consultation_February_2023.pdf.
When ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ was published, the department announced an additional £200 million funding for implementation. However, this is only part of the wider picture of spending on children’s social care reform. In total, across the department's programmes, almost £700 million has been committed to start delivering the reforms.
In ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’, the department committed to work with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to update, publish and consult on a new funding distribution formula. Departmental officials are working in partnership towards implementing an updated approach to distributing available funding for children and young people’s services, based on an up-to-date assessment of relative need in local authorities.
Whilst the government is not able to implement funding reform in this spending period, the department remain committed to updating the funding formula for children’s services to better direct resources to where they are most needed, and work will continue across government to that end.
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there are telecare devices being sold that will no longer be fully operational after the Public Switched Telephone Network is switched off.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
It is a known risk that some analogue telecare devices may not be digitally compatible or perform as reliably on digital networks. In November 2021, the Technology Enabled Care Services Association (TSA), the industry and advisory body for technology enabled care in the UK, released a statement requesting service providers discontinue purchasing new analogue-only units. Where there is an ongoing requirement to communicate in analogue protocols, providers can procure ‘hybrid’ alarms that communicate in both analogue and digital protocols.
Despite this, some telecare suppliers are still selling analogue devices to private customers. Also, telecare service providers may be re-issuing analogue devices to new customers, given the devices’ typical lifespan of five to seven years, before replacing them with digital alarm devices at the end of their lifespan. Alongside the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Department of Health and Social Care is developing a Telecare National Action Plan which will set out actions that a range of stakeholders, including telecare suppliers and service providers, are expected to take to ensure the safety of telecare users in the switch to digital lines. This will include actions to help telecare providers to better understand and manage the risks associated with the use of analogue telecare devices and will be published in the coming months, following stakeholder feedback.
Correspondence May. 23 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: DHSC and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC ) provide additional scrutiny