CARERS ONE-OFFGRANT SCHEME

2015-16

Revised application July 2015

As part of its prevention and wellbeing duties Adults’ Services provides a ‘one-off’ grant scheme to support carers in their caring role. Examples of how the one-off grant can be used include:

  • A contributiontoward the cost ofa short-break to provide a break from a caring role
  • Purchase of a mobile phone to stay in touch with home
  • Purchase of domestic equipmente.g. a washing machine ornoise monitor
  • Support with transport costs to enable a carer to attend appointments
  • A contribution toward the cost of carer related course e.g. a lifting and handling course
  • Purchase of an educational training course to support the carers own personal goals

To ensure flexibility, carers’ can add their own personal funds to the grant to purchase more expensive services or goods i.e. the one-off payment may contribute to part of the cost of a holiday or mini-break with the carer topping up the remaining cost from their personal funds.

GRANT AVAILABLE

The one-off grant available per carer will be £150.00 per year

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

To be eligible for a one-off payment carers’ must:

  • Be resident in the London Borough of Ealing; and
  • Provide ‘substantial’ care and support to a cared for person aged 18 or overand
  • Have either declined a carers assessment or been assessed as non-eligible for support

Substantial care is defined asthe carer providing support to a cared for person that either reduces or delays the need for formal support services provided through the council; and where the carer provides direct care (such as personal care and domestic support) to the cared for person at least 2-3 times per week.

Important- please note that the one-off grant is for preventative purposes only and is not available as part of a carers personal budget or support plan following a completion of a carers assessment

VALIDATING APPLICATIONS

If the Carer applying for a one-off grant or the person they are looking after is known to Adults Services, there will be no need to validate the applicants caring role.

For applications where neither the Carer nor the ‘cared for adult’ are known to Adults Services – additional evidence to validate the applicant’s caring role will need to be included with the completed application.

The department will accept a copy of any one of the following items as evidence of a person’s caring role:

  • Evidence of a disability related benefit being received by the ‘cared for adult’
    (e.g. PIP Payment; Severe Disablement Allowance; Disabled Students Allowance etc.)
  • Evidence of the carer receiving a carers related benefit or allowance etc.
  • Evidence of carers council tax discount or exemption received from Ealing Council
  • Be in receipt of a carers emergency card
    (available on application from )

If you are a carer but cannot provide the above supplementary evidence, please complete the form and return it. A social worker may need to discuss your caring role with you directly, which can be arranged via telephone, a self-assessment or face to face assessment to validate your application.

ACCESSING THE GRANT

Carers can apply foragrantapplication for through the Social Services Contact Centre, their allocated Social Worker, local Carers’ Worker or from the Carers Centre.

If you need assistance completing the form, the Carers Centre can help. You can contact them by telephone on 020 8840 1566 or via email at

The attachedapplication form (and accompanying monitoring form) must be completed and returned to:

Brokerage Team

Ealing Council

Carers One-off Grant Scheme

2nd Floor (Green)

Perceval House

London

W5 2HL

You can also complete your application and emailit to:

Please note access to the one-off grant is on a first come first served basis and subjectto available funds

CARERS ONE-OFF GRANTAPPLICATION FORM

Name of carer
Council IDnumber
(if known)
Date of birth
Address
Telephone number
Name of cared for person
(include Council ID if known)
Social Worker or Carers Worker
(if known)
Team details
(if known)
Telephone number
(if known)
Email
(if known)
Carers' assessment offered: / Declined or Not Eligible (delete as applicable)
Date assessment completed
Details of the support provided to the cared for person
Details of the cared for persons care and support needs
Please enter details of the services or goods to be purchased with the grant
Payment / £150.00
Frequency of payment / One-off payment
If you are not known to Adults Services
(please select or circle one) /
- I have included evidence of my caring role
- I do not have the required evidence and understand that a social worker will contact me to discuss my current caring responsibilities in order to validate my application.
Carers Signature:
Signed:
Print name:
Date:
Validated by:
Signed:
Print name:
Date:

TERMS & CONDITIONS

  1. The carer will have the responsibility for arranging and purchasing theirown support services or goods
  2. The carer cannot use the one-off grant to purchase anything that the Council deemsto be unlawful or illegal
  3. Ealing Council doesNOT accept responsibility for any dispute that may arise between the carer and their nominated service or goods provider.
  4. The carer cannot employ a partner (either married or unmarried) or a close relative with the one-off grant.A close relative is defined as a parent, parent in law, aunt, uncle, grandparent, grandchild, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, step son or daughter, brother, sister or spouse or partner of any of these.
  5. The carer willhaverecourse to Ealing Council’s complaints’ procedures at any time should they be unhappy with any aspect of the carers one-off grant payment process.

Internal use only

  1. Brokerage to arrange for a customer ID to be created if carer is not known to the Council
  2. Brokerage manager to confirm carer meets application eligibility criteria
  3. Brokerage manager to validate application and issue payment
  4. Brokerage to scan and upload completed application onto Frameworki and record service
  5. Payment to carer to be made via a cheque or pre-paid card option

MONITORING INFORMATION

Name of Carer:………………………………………………………………………………………...

How do you describe yourself? (Please tick where applicable)

MaleFemale

Do you consider yourself to have a disability? Yes No

Ethnic Group (the following categories are based on the 2001 census)

(A)WhiteBritish

Irish

Other White background (Please specify)…………………………..

(B)MixedWhite and Black Caribbean

White and Black African

White and Asian

Other mixed background (Please specify)………………………….

(C)Asian or

Asian Indian

British

Pakistani

Bangladeshi

Other Asian background (Please specify)………………………….

(D)Black or

BlackCaribbean

British

African

Other black background (Please specify)…………………………...

(E) Other

EthnicChinese

Group

Any other Ethnic background (Please specify)……………………..

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Carers One-Off Grant Scheme 2015-16 (Revised July 2015)