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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This short booklet aims to give those responsible for preparing for CQC assessment an ‘off the shelf’ set of information and guidance to share with staff.
This report highlights the activities and support offers delivered over the course of the 23/24 improvement programme, highlighting the councils or systems we have engaged with, the unique support offers we have developed and the outcomes and outputs we have achieved in delivery of our improvement programme.
This practical guidance draws on extensive engagement with front line teams, statutory guidance and mental health discharge operational models that are working well across the country.
Understanding the necessary conditions for councils with adult social care responsibilities to move to collaborative, strength- based, preventative approaches.
