Commissioning for Community Services across Health and Social Care – Community Care June Conference
April 22, 2010
Mark Lloyd, CHS Director will present on ‘transforming social care services’ at this summer’s Community Care Conference on 9th June 2010 in Central London. The presentation will be on the Essex Cares experience, the first transfer of Adult Social Care Services into a Local Authority Trading Company (LATC). Key focus points will be delivering major efficiencies and adapting provider services to meet the personalisation agenda. For booking details on the conference contact registrations@lexisnexis.co.uk
Transformation Programme Delivery for Social Care
April 2, 2010
We enter the next five to ten year period with probably the most significant set of challenges ever to face front line social care service delivery as the ‘baby-boomers’ hit retirement age and demand for care and support services is set to rapidly increase at the same time as resources in the public sector become squeezed. Another proposed Commission and further ideas from our politicians in recent weeks in the build up to the general election confirm the reality that we will all have to contributed personally to our longer term care needs either in a voluntary or compulsory manner in a new contract relationship with the welfare state.
Alongside this agenda is the radical and potential revolutionary intentions of Councils to lead Transformation Agenda’s for Social Care Services including the meeting of the ‘Putting People First Agenda’, the externalisation of provider services often into arms length companies, and a substantial reduction in corporate overheads to protect front line services. Within this mix of change is the introduction of the Individual budgets with fewer and fewer people reliant on direct council services, this trend will increase post election. Much of the work of Care and Health Solutions now focuses on supporting Councils to develop change management programmes to meet strategic and operational transformation change – we enter a decade where the shape of things to come will be radical.