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Building fairer towns, cities and regions

Building fairer towns, cities and regions: Insights from Marmot Places

This report highlights the innovative and collaborative work of councils and their partners, who have embraced the Marmot principles and turned them into meaningful action.

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Mental health performance, data and insight: Guidance for directors of adult social services

This guidance document has been developed by Partners in Care and Health (PCH) working in collaboration with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) Mental Health Network. The purpose is to provide practical guidance for Directors of Adult Social Services (DASS), to ensure insight and understanding in relation to their duties and wider system performance related to adult mental health services.

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Must know: Personalisation and Making It Real in adult social care

This must know guide provides an overview of how to implement personalisation in adult social care, offering an introduction to the principles and practices of personalisation and to implementing these concepts.

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Learning from the first wave: reflections from directors of adult services who have completed their CQC assessment

This document draws on interviews with directors and other senior leaders from the first wave of CQC assessments. It is based on their approach, reflections, and suggestions for those councils that are preparing for assessment for the first time. The spread of judgements of those involved with published reports was 8 Good and 4 Requires Improvement. CQC assessments start when they send an information return to a council and end when they publish the report.

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Briefing: Workforce planning in a place

The adult social care workforce in a place is large, diverse and dispersed across many roles, services and organisations. Only seven per cent is directly employed in a council. Here you will find learning to help you to feel more confident and equipped to develop your future workforce for your place.

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Essential insights for effectively communicating your narrative in the adult social care CQC self-assessment

The self-assessment is an opportunity to create a confident and evidence-based local narrative in preparation for the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) onsite work. We’ve developed this practical guidance to support adult social care colleagues to give a succinct and focused account of themselves in their self-assessment. The insights within this guidance are based on discussions with adult social care colleagues at councils that have already experienced the CQC assessment process.

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Preventive and proactive care: research report

Preventive and proactive care: research report

While we know there is much good practice in prevention happening across England, the evidence base is limited or dispersed. With rising financial pressures, it is important for health and social care systems to make as strong a case as possible for this investment. Our report provides peer learning for local health and care systems.

The LGA’s submission to Change NHS

Read our submission to the Change NHS portal, submitted on 2 December 2024. This is a major opportunity for the local government sector to use our collective voice to help shape the Ten-Year Plan for Health.

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Earlier action and support: The case for prevention in adult social care and beyond

Prevention is a central feature of the new Government’s mission-led approach to national renewal. Our joint publication makes the case for a shift towards taking action and offering support earlier, so that more people can live the lives they want. This creates a new opportunity to deliver.

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Understanding the management and monitoring of waiting lists in adult social care

There is increasing desire to develop shared metrics relating to care waiting lists and waiting times for adult social care assessment, support, and reviews. However, different approaches make comparison or national overview and understanding difficult to achieve. These are our findings and next steps following stakeholder engagement.

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