Community Care Online Seminar – 12 November – the key to Reablement
October 16, 2009
RMark Lloyd CHS Director will be one of the first ‘expert’ speakers to appear on the new Community Care Magazine online seminars on the 12th November 2009. Mark will share his experience of working for Essex Cares in developing the new Reablement Service – an intensive six week progamme of support and intervention focused on assisting people discharged from hospital move towards greater independence.
Details on this Community Care can be found at www.confererencesandtraining.com/communitycareonlineseminars
Trowers and Hamlins LATC Seminars with CHS
October 13, 2009
CHS in partnership with Trowers and Hamlins will be holding two seminars on the 17th November 2009 in Manchester and 1st December 2009 in London. Both free lunch time seminars for Directors of Adult Social Services or their representives will focus on the legal, financial, human resource, and operational requirements to deliver externalisation of Adult Social Care Services through an LATC model as an alternative to Social Enterprise and as recently delivered by CHS Directors in Essex.
For further information please contact mark@careandhealthsolutions.co.uk or events@trowers.com
How will Essex’s Council Owned Care Delivery Company Operate?
October 3, 2009
Community Care in this weeks magazine (11th October 2009) carry a feature with the above title on the launch of Essex Cares as a model for other local authorities and county councils to follow – described as the middleway forward the Local Authority Trading Company provides a solution for Councils in maintaining cost effective and commercial focused services which were once in-house but are now externalised. At the same time Councils as the shareholder can expect a return on the improved efficiencies. As a model many County Councils and Local Authorities may consider the LATC as an alternative to the more well known Social Enterprise legal entity which is more arms length from Council control and share ownership. www.communitycare.co.uk/…/essex-cares-is-first-local-authority-trading-company-for-social.html