Welfare Reform Bill
12:00 pm
Mary Helson: The intention is that it should be as seamless as possible for an individual disabled person. There is an absolute desire to avoid confusion and duplication of the primary powers. The alignment at local authority level will ensure that it is possible to join all those different pots of money together. We are starting that through the project steering group. It will involve the Department of Health and the Department for Communities and Local Government. That will ensure that we join up at all the different levels where necessary. In the pilots we will need to ensure that the transformation of adult social care, which is already very advanced, is integrated sensibly with the personalisation on the disability employment programmes, where we need to make further progress.