Adult social care, personalisation

Work on adult social care and personalisation

London Funders reports
Personalisation- Personal budgets for health and social care. A meeting for London’s funders and investors .

Useful links
Personalisation: ACEVO guides for voluntary organisations
ACEVO’s response to the introduction of Personal Budgets in the fields of health and social care is that they are not only a unique opportunity for service users to take greater control over their lives but give the third sector a key role, as they will have the potential to offer a wider choice of services.

External publications
An approach to economic evaluation in social care
Social Care Institute for Excellence report 52, December 2011
What economic evaluation in social care is and why it is important for policy-making. Explains some of the features of social care that require a distinct approach to the application of economic evaluation methods, and what those methods should be.

A better life
Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on a research programme focussing on how to improve the quality of life of older people with high support needs. The report considers the needs and situations of older people with high support needs from different equality groups, and the barriers they commonly face in service provision.

Report on the findings of a two-year action research project funded by Trust for London and undertaken by Toosh Limited, managed by Disability Action in Islington. It looked at the human resource challenges of user-led Deaf and Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs). 
 
The Football Foundation's evaluation of the second year of a pilot programme which aims to use the power of professional football clubs’ brands to engage people over 55 in physical activity and social inclusion projects across the country.
 
The Audit Commission reviews approaches to transition from providing services to providing personal budgets, the choices for allocating money, and how councils can plan for the financial implications. It considers changes in social care commissioning and the governance arrangements needed for personal budgets and includes a self-assessment checklist to help councils review progress in implementing personal budgets and identify areas for improvement.
 
Research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlights that, despite being most affected by changes to the current failing system, most service users often are not involved in discussions about how their social care is funded. The report draws on the experiences of 18 adult social care service users who were brought together in 2009 to explore proposals for funding social care in the future. 
 
A report from IPPR and City Bridge Trust of findings from a year-long programme of research, profiling London’s ageing population and especially making recommendations on home-based care, dementia care and social isolation.
 
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) guide aimed at front-line practitioners and first-line managers in statutory and independent sector social care services and makes recommendations for transforming social care through public service reform.
 
London Councils has published a series of succinct and practical case studies that highlight London boroughs’ work to deliver personalised care and support for adults.
 
A report from SCIE on the potential for personalisation, particularly self-directed support and personal budgets, to result in cost-efficiencies and improved productivity as well as improved care and support.
 
This Joseph Rowntree Foundation study reviews a pilot project offering personalised budgets to rough sleepers in the City of London. It finds that the majority of participants had moved into accommodation but long-term personalised support was needed to encourage them to remain. 
 
Social care funding and the NHS: An impending crisis? by Richard Humphries, published by The King’s Fund
The impact of funding cuts to the NHS has been widely reported and discussed, but less attention has been given to social care and the inter-relationships of health and social care. This publication examines trends in spending on social care, tries out scenarios based on different levels of funding and ring-fencing in future, and estimates the likely funding gap and the knock-on effect on the NHS. 
 

 

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