Consultations - National & Local

DH RESPONSE - Analysis of the consultation on allocation options for distribution of additional funding to local authorities for Local HealthWatch, NHS Complaints Advocacy and PCT Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) in hospitals

This document summarises responses to the consultation on options for allocating additional funding to local authorities for local Healthwatch, NHS Complaints Advocacy and DOLS in hospitals, and sets out the Government's response.

On 15 September 2011 the Government launched Caring for our future: shared ambitions for care and support. From this date until early December 2011, the Department will be seeking the views of people who use care and support services, carers, local councils, care providers and the voluntary sector, about the priorities for improving care and support.

Caring for our future is an opportunity to bring together the recommendations from the Law Commission and the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support with the Government's Vision for Adult Social Care, and to use these recommendations as a basis for a discussion with stakeholders about what the priorities for reform should be.

Consultation on allocation options for distribution of additional funding to local authorities, for: Local HealthWatch, NHS Complaints Advocacy, PCT Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards