Think Local Act Personal has produced an online Care and Support Jargon Buster which is free to use and share. Our intention is that the resource will be widely accessible to help people make sense of jargon words and phrases surrounding social care.
Somerset County Council are encouraging more adults with social care needs to be assessed for a personal budget. The council has been reported as having the lowest take-up of all local authorities with one in three adults in adult social care in receipt of the payments. While they have increased the figure this year they are still expected to have 70% of people with social care needs assessed. The council have agreed to use the Personal Budgets Outcomes Evaluation Tool (POET) to find out the views of people and families using personal budgets to help make the necessary improvements.
Partner organisation Care Quality Commission (CQC) have begun a consultation on a series of handbooks for providers to understand how they will regulate, inspect and rate:
The number of older people in need of care is expected to outstrip the number of family members able and willing to provide informal care in 2017, according to a new report by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR).
A webinar will introduce NHS England's personal health budgets programme, which is taking place across seven pilot sites, and will also share information learnt on ways to effectively implement personal health budgets in mental health services.
The Deprivation of Liberty (DoL) procedures under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 have caused confusion and controversy since their introduction five years ago.
Social Care 2014: Better Guidance, Better Care will features information on new regulation, funding frameworks and minimum standards which will impact your work.
The interim report of the Barker Commission has concluded that the current divide between health and social care is not in the best interest of patients and carers. They propose that a single, ring-fenced budget would be better at serving individuals' health and social care needs.
There are now 688 organisations signed-up to Making it Real. TLAP are continuously working to secure further registrations and to help organisations engage with the Making it Real markers and manage their progress towards delivering personalised care and support. We asked Staffordshire County Council to give us an insight into how they chose their priorities and the challenges they think they may encounter in going forward.
Partner organisation SCIE has redeveloped Social Care Online - the UK's largest database of free information and research on social care and social work. The site is aimed at: