ILF threatened! Read Inclusion London’s information paper and respond to government’s ILF consultation
ILF threatened! Read Inclusion London’s information paper and respond to government’s ILF consultation
Inclusion London’s information paper gives an overview on the government’s consultation on the future of the Independent Living Fund (ILF), which closes on 10 October 2012.
September 2012
The consultation documents can be found at: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/consultations/2012/future-of-ilf.shtml
Inclusion London calls on all political parties to look at how we support and enable citizens with independent living /social care in the future. We believe that that adequate funding, from general taxation should be allocated and ring fenced for independent living /social care support.
Inclusion London opposes the abolition of the ILF because it works!
The ILF provides good practice examples, which local authorities lack, for example, the ILF:
- Enables independence, choice and control
- Needs not budget led
- Funding avoids higher costs at a later stage
- Provides expertise in disabled people with highest needs
- Support is portable (without reassessment)
- National eligible criteria
- Creates personal assistant jobs
Disadvantages of passing responsibility to local authorities:
- Due to pressure on local authority budgets locally funded support is being cut down to 15 minutes, resulting in little or no choice, control.
- Without the promise of additional ringfenced funding support will be cut, resulting in a severe loss of independence
- Non voluntary moves to residential likely, with the attendant risks of abuse, neglect and removal of rights that this can entail.
The reasons cited by the government for transferring ILF functions to local authorities simply do not stand up to scrutiny. Download the full information paper below:
Download Inclusion London-Future of ILF info paper September 2012
Download the Easy Read version below.
