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How commissioners can ensure home care respects human rights

Thu, 05/23/2013 - 16:01
The Equality and Human Rights Commission found widespread human rights breaches in the home care sector in its 2010-11 review. It has now issued commissioners with a guide to improving this situation.
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Personal budgets improve outcomes but still held back by bureaucracy

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 12:43
Survey of 3,400 personal budgets recipients and carers finds personal budgets have greatest impact when councils reduce red tape for practitioners and families.
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Cap on care costs risks more complexity and complaints for social workers

Tue, 05/21/2013 - 01:01
Flagship government policy to reform care funding will be highly complex to implement and increase workloads for council practitioners, warns report from the King's Fund.
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Green light for legal challenge against council cap on care packages

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 16:57
Judicial review to go ahead against maximum expenditure policy, which critics warn will force disabled people into residential care.
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Why I want to be a social care manager - to celebrate life

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:51
Management trainee Natalie Crisp has her eyes opened by the challenges of residential care and of making end-of-life care decisions, all of which makes her realise why she wants to work in social care, in her latest diary entry.
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Zero-hour contracts and unpaid travel time wrong approach for reablement staff

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 12:52
Scie practice guide to reablement says investment in staff key to helping service users regain independence following crisis.
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Social work evidence to carry greater weight with Court of Protection

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 11:25
Court expected to revise guidance to make it clear it will accept mental capacity assessments from social workers, and not just from doctors, psychologists or therapists.
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How payment by results can improve reablement services

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 14:23
Hertfordshire Council's reablement service was performing well but costing to much. A review led to changes, including payment by results, that has reduced costs and improved outcomes, says deputy director Iain MacBeath.
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Lamb issues plan to integrate health and social care for all by 2018

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 01:01
Care services minister Norman Lamb vows to remove barriers to co-ordinated care to improve outcomes for people with long-term conditions and value for money.
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Social workers failing adults with autism due to training gap, warns charity

Mon, 05/13/2013 - 15:56
National Autistic Society finds just 23% of adults with autism believe social workers have a good understanding of the condition, while half of councils are not providing community care assessors with autism training.
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Preventing staff burnout key to supporting adults with 'challenging behaviour'

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 13:20
Guidance launched for managers in helping care staff effectively support service users with behaviour that challenges, in the wake of Winterbourne View.
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Queen's Speech announces adult social care overhaul as cuts deepen

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 14:42
Care and Support Bill will modernise adult care law, provide new rights to support for carers and implement cap on self-funders' care costs, but concerns persist over how effective it will be amid squeeze on council budgets.
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Bridging the health-social care gap: life as a joint commissioner for dementia

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:27
Walsall's approach to jointly commissioning dementia care has been praised in Nice guidance. Joint commissioner Michael Hurt tells Natalie Valios about how he has used his role to reshape services.
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How social workers can make personal budgets work for people with dementia

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 11:52
By following good practice on assessments, support planning and reviews right, social workers can overcome the barriers to making personal budgets work for people with dementia.
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20% wiped off adult care budgets in three years, report directors

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 01:01
Latest Association of Directors of Adult Social Services survey finds councils on course to have cut £2.68bn from adult care since 2011, with worse predicted in the next two years.
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Five tips to improve dementia support in care homes

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 16:56
Four Seasons Health Care has halved use of antipsychotic medication for adults with dementia through its specialist Pearl care programme. Head of dementia care Caroline Baker outlines the key learning points for all care homes.
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CQC to monitor big providers' finances to help avoid Southern Cross repeat

Sat, 05/04/2013 - 01:01
Care services minister Norman Lamb says financial oversight regime will help ensure continuity of care if large providers collapse.
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Lamb moots return of CQC ratings of adult social services

Tue, 04/30/2013 - 18:06
Care services minister also threatens to 'name and shame' commissioners who fail to meet post-Winterbourne targets to review needs of people with learning disabilities placed in hospitals.
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Lamb signals return of CQC ratings of adult social services

Tue, 04/30/2013 - 17:51
Care services minister also threatens to 'name and shame' commissioners who fail to meet post-Winterbourne targets to review needs of people with learning disabilities placed in hospitals.
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Specialist support slashed for homeless people with complex needs

Mon, 04/29/2013 - 12:00
Homeless Link reports sharp falls in proportion of projects targeting people with mental health problems and domestic violence victims.
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If I were running the country - encouraging business

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 09:33

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Fantasy government - what would I do if I were in government?  Well how about reduce corporation tax, increase income tax, increase minimum wage and invest in job creation in the regions?  That would be a good start - create jobs where there are workers, then make sure that the right amount of tax is collected and at the same time reduce spend on benefits which are only used to increase profits of selfish organisations.

Would it work?  Have your say.

PwC Report on the Current State of Project Management

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:44

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PwC Project Management ReportPwC found that successful companies are getting more mature in their project management ability.  This raises the game – successful companies have lower costs from fewer failed projects, and less successful companies have to work harder to catch up.  There are some important lessons to take this report for everyone – Read more…

Joy instead of tedium

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 21:04

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Every office has them - the tasks that have to be done that nobody likes doing.  Whether it's the audit, the wages, standard letters, whatever it is - someone has to do it and it feels like a waste of time and money.

Why should you care?

So you employ somebody, so why do you care about how tedious the task is? Well they are costing money, to do something that could be done far more effectively.

Learning from the Past

Submitted by HugoM on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 20:27

Evidence for service improvement

Many public service changes have little basis in evidence. Their success (or otherwise) does not appear to depend on how 'good' the policy itself is, but rather on how it has been implemented. This relies on staff attitudes and relationships. My research falls into a number of broad categories: finding out what is currently happening; what people think about it; and what people think it will mean.

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Consumer Price Index (CPI) Calculator for SROI

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 10:05

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When calculating a Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation or SROI forecast , sometimes you have to rely on published figures from reports.  But if these are from a few years ago, then they probably need adjusting for inflation.

There are calculators on the web to do this for you, but I found them cumbersome and it was difficult to keep a record of what calculator I'd used, and how, for which value - auditability and transparency is vital for SROI.  So here's a spreadsheet to do this properly!