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WorkSafe BC Coverage for HSPs
Announcement from CLBC
Highlights from Budget 2024 – Administration rate increase for service providers and funding for WorkSafeBC coverage for home sharing providers
We are pleased with the commitment made to people with developmental disabilities and our service provider partners in the B.C. government’s 2024 budget. CLBC will have a budget of $1.66 billion in 2024/25 to serve an estimated 29,000 eligible individuals by the end of the fiscal year.
The budget includes an administration rate increase to 10% for service providers, which began in April 2024. The adjustment is intended to assist agencies with challenges posed by inflationary cost pressures such head office rent, information technology and insurance, and applies to both staffed services programs and shared living programs.
The budget also includes an increase to home sharing rates in recognition of costs associated with a new standardized requirement for home sharing providers to register with WorkSafeBC for Personal Optional Protection (POP) coverage.
“The collaboration between HSSSBC, CLBC and the BC CEO Network has resulted in positive change for the betterment of the home sharing community,” said Trina Plamondon, Executive Director of the Home Sharing Support Society BC. “Now, eligible Home Sharing Providers will have access to WorkSafe POP coverage health care, wage-loss, and rehabilitation benefits if injured at work. This is such an important benefit for the home sharing community. We look forward to the continued collaborative work with our key partners. Together we will continue to affect positive change for those we serve.”
CLBC will complete a comprehensive, province-wide service demand assessment for 2024/25 that will help inform its funding decisions for the year in response to individual and family requests for services. See the Understand CLBC Funding Decisions page that explains this process.
Every year, along with the Provincial Budget, CLBC posts its service plan outlining its goals and strategies for the year ahead. You can read CLBC’s new Service Plan here.
Service terms and conditions for contracts between CLBC and Service Providers
CLBC is updating the Service Terms and Conditions for Contracts between Community Living British Columbia and Service Providers. These updates are an effort to improve the provision of Home Sharing services with updated and consolidated requirements, and to improve clarity on the language and expectations we have of contracted Service Providers.
Improvements to Home Sharing Services
- As we are discontinuing the Home Sharing Terms and Conditions for Direct Home Share Providers, we have removed references and incorporated expectations into the Service Terms and Conditions
- We have included a new requirement for Home Sharing providers to register with WorkSafe under the Personal Optional Protection program. CLBC has also increased Home Sharing rates as of April 1, 2024, to ensure that Home Sharing providers can purchase this coverage.
Improvements to Clarity
- We have clarified the interaction between the requirement to provide services within BC with the Travel Outside of BC with CLBC-Funded Services Policy
- Updated policy names and included policies that are currently in force
- Updated Definition of Service Hours based on what we’ve learned from Service Level Audits
- Aligned Periodic Reporting Requirements to CLBC’s current practices and expectations
- Enhanced language on Sales and Assignment
- Other minor language changes and updates to CLBC role titles
The new Terms and Conditions documents will be posted to CLBC’s website and will be effective July 1, 2024.