Examples of good practice in PPF in the West Midlands can be found on the Putting People First website.
The site is aimed at social care practitioners. PPF examples include:
Birmingham City Council which set up a Citizen Engagement Project to identify how involvement of residents can be enhanced, and what this might mean for the council and how it works. The authority also involved service users in developing its Direct Payments User Guide, and is looking at how involvement of users can improve efficiency and the quality of services.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has established two residential reablement centres to aid a speedy return to home from hospital, or even prevent admission to hospital. The centres provide integrated health and social care and have fitness and telecare suites on site.
Coventry City Council has put in place short term housing tenancies with the aim of reducing need for residential placements, and to smooth the transition between leaving hospital and returning home. The scheme has resulted in only 10% of people going on to long term residential care, compared to 30% of people using the short stay residential service during the same period. The tenancies demonstrate a viable value for money option for older people needing short term enablement support to get them on their feet again, in a home setting.
Coventry has also set up Contact and Connect, a service devised to help older people live safely and independently in their own homes, and improve their quality of life by connecting them – easily and efficiently – to appropriate services. Managed by Age Concern Coventry, it is delivered by a range of local agencies, such as the fire service, pensions service and the city’s carers' centre. Results include an uptake in benefits; more people maintaining their independence at home; a reduction of fire in the home by increasing the number of fire safety assessments and fitting of smoke alarms; plus increased access to home safety checks resulting in falls prevention.
Staffordshire County Council is developing the leadership skills of managers to aid delivery of its transformation programme. All managers in social services are required to attend the internal development programme for which accreditation is being sought. Senior managers have also attended ‘changing culture’ workshops run by consultancy Senn Delaney Leadership.
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Your care, your say, your choice
The Choice Care on line directory has been designed by Herefordshire Council to provide residents with better information needed to help them plan their care.
The directory forms part of Herefordshire’s move towards personalising social care.
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The directory forms part of Herefordshire’s move towards personalising social care.
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Easy and straight to the point
Dudley’s new Access to Adult Social Care Service offers residents an easy and single point of contact for accessing services.
The contact point reflects Dudley’s moves towards working across boundaries and agencies in an effort to help people live independently for longer. It offers a full range of social and community activities including those not traditionally associated with social care.
The council has also set up a new section on its website for service providers, offering advice and best practice information on how they can transform their services to meet changing needs and demands.
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The contact point reflects Dudley’s moves towards working across boundaries and agencies in an effort to help people live independently for longer. It offers a full range of social and community activities including those not traditionally associated with social care.
The council has also set up a new section on its website for service providers, offering advice and best practice information on how they can transform their services to meet changing needs and demands.
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Transforming adult social care in the West Midlands
Details of local and regional activities to transform adult social care can be found in the publication ‘Delivering Putting People First in the West Midlands’, an account of what took place at the Transforming Adults Social Care (TASC) summit held in July this year.
The booklet, available free of charge, showcases best practice in the region and the work underway to reach five milestones during the first phase of transformation by April 2011.
Regional milestones agreed by the Department of Health (DH), the Association for Directors for Adult Social Services (ADASS) and Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands (IEWM) are that:
• transformation of adult social care has been developed in partnership with existing service users (both public and private), their carers and other citizens interested in these services
• a process is in place to ensure all those eligible for council funded social care support will receive a personal budget via a suitable assessment process
• partners are investing in cost effective preventative interventions which reduce the demand for social care and health services
• citizens have access to information and advice regarding how to identify and access options available in their communities to meet their care and support needs
• service users are experiencing broadening of choice and improvement in quality of care and support services built upon involvement of key stakeholders (councils, Primary Care Trusts, service users, providers, third sector organisations etc), that can meet the aspirations of all local people – whether council or self funded - wanting to procure social care services.
Download
Telephone: 0121 245 0220
Email: info@westmidlandsiep.gov.uk .
The booklet, available free of charge, showcases best practice in the region and the work underway to reach five milestones during the first phase of transformation by April 2011.
Regional milestones agreed by the Department of Health (DH), the Association for Directors for Adult Social Services (ADASS) and Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands (IEWM) are that:
• transformation of adult social care has been developed in partnership with existing service users (both public and private), their carers and other citizens interested in these services
• a process is in place to ensure all those eligible for council funded social care support will receive a personal budget via a suitable assessment process
• partners are investing in cost effective preventative interventions which reduce the demand for social care and health services
• citizens have access to information and advice regarding how to identify and access options available in their communities to meet their care and support needs
• service users are experiencing broadening of choice and improvement in quality of care and support services built upon involvement of key stakeholders (councils, Primary Care Trusts, service users, providers, third sector organisations etc), that can meet the aspirations of all local people – whether council or self funded - wanting to procure social care services.
Download
Telephone: 0121 245 0220
Email: info@westmidlandsiep.gov.uk .
Personalisation and transformation - a brief summary
Social care is the wide range of services designed to help people maintain their independence, and equip them with resources needed to play a fuller part in society, and to protect them in vulnerable situations.
Advances in public health and healthcare, together with changes in society mean people are living longer.
As communities become more diverse, the challenge of satisfying increasing demands and different needs becomes more apparent.
Putting People First (PPF) is a response to these changes and challenges.
It is a national programme set up to ensure public bodies work together with the purpose of empowering individuals to take control over their lives, and give them maximum choice. PPF requires all aspects of support services to be addressed including:
• Universal services – the general support available to everyone in their community, such as transport, leisure, education, employment, health, housing, community safety, and information and advice
• Early intervention and prevention – helping people live at home independently, preventing them from needing social care support for as long as possible, leading to potential financial savings
• Choice and control – giving people a clear understanding of how much is to be spent on their care and support, and allowing then to choose how they would like this funding to be used to suit their needs and preferences
• Social capital – fostering strong and supportive communities that value the contribution each citizen can make
• Social care will need to undergo significant changes in process, practice and culture, requiring investment in training and support for the workforce
• A total of £520 million, in the form of the Social Care and Reform Grant, has been allocated over three years to assist the transformation process. The third and final raft of the grant has been distributed this year
• PPF is not limited to public services used by people eligible for state support; it is also about how everyone makes best use of resources in their area.
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Advances in public health and healthcare, together with changes in society mean people are living longer.
As communities become more diverse, the challenge of satisfying increasing demands and different needs becomes more apparent.
Putting People First (PPF) is a response to these changes and challenges.
It is a national programme set up to ensure public bodies work together with the purpose of empowering individuals to take control over their lives, and give them maximum choice. PPF requires all aspects of support services to be addressed including:
• Universal services – the general support available to everyone in their community, such as transport, leisure, education, employment, health, housing, community safety, and information and advice
• Early intervention and prevention – helping people live at home independently, preventing them from needing social care support for as long as possible, leading to potential financial savings
• Choice and control – giving people a clear understanding of how much is to be spent on their care and support, and allowing then to choose how they would like this funding to be used to suit their needs and preferences
• Social capital – fostering strong and supportive communities that value the contribution each citizen can make
• Social care will need to undergo significant changes in process, practice and culture, requiring investment in training and support for the workforce
• A total of £520 million, in the form of the Social Care and Reform Grant, has been allocated over three years to assist the transformation process. The third and final raft of the grant has been distributed this year
• PPF is not limited to public services used by people eligible for state support; it is also about how everyone makes best use of resources in their area.
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Commission seeks to crack care funding dilemma
The newly appointed Commission on the Funding of Care and Support has started its consideration of how to achieve an affordable and sustainable funding system for care and support of adults in England.
The commission, set up in July 2010, will report within a year. Its brief is to look at a range of ideas compatible with the personalisation of care, preventative services and partnership working. Specifically it has been asked to make recommendations on how:
- best to meet the cost of care and support based on a partnership between individuals and the state
- people can choose to protect their assets, especially their home, against the cost of care
- public funding can be best used to meet care and support needs
- the commission's eventual preferred option can be delivered, along with timescales, an assessment of impact on local authorities and the NHS, and, if appropriate, details of financial regualtion.
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Care awards 2010
The Great Brtish Care Awards are open for nominations.
Organised by Ceretas, the body representing people in home care services, the awards celebrate excellence across the social care sector, and pay tribute to individuals who demonstrate outstanding performance in their field of work.
Closing date for entries is 23 August 2010.
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Organised by Ceretas, the body representing people in home care services, the awards celebrate excellence across the social care sector, and pay tribute to individuals who demonstrate outstanding performance in their field of work.
Closing date for entries is 23 August 2010.
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