CIPFA Social Care Finance (SCF) Forum
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Welcome to the Health and Social Care and Commissioning Finance Advisory Network
The Health and Social Care Strategy Commissioning and Finance Network provides timely and practical advice covering the wide remit of health, public health, and social care. The network is here to support strategy, commissioning and finance practitioners, such as members of health and well being boards, clinical commissioning groups and those in local authorities with responsibility for health, public health and social care.
The network has recently extended its remit to recognise continuing changes in the health and social care landscape, such as the move of commissioning from PCT’s to Clinical Commissioning Groups and the NHS Commissioning Board, and the move of public health functions to local authorities.
Latest News
Public Health Funding Analysis - A Virtual rather than a Vicious Circle
The hard work that has gone into estimating the spending on public health has revealed a number of issues for the future of public health funding - including wide variations in spending per head - planned spending being reduced to offset overspending elsewhere - and £1bn of resources unallo...more
Public Health Funding Update - March 2012
This brief note gives an update on the latest developments in public health following the publication of the public health funding note in February.
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Integrated and Collaborative Working Commissioning- Health and Social Care - March 2012
Following the Health and Social Care Bill receiving Royal Assent and becoming an Act – we have today published a brief note which continues to look at the opportunities and challenges from integrated and collaborative working and commissioning across Health and Social Care
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Budget 2012 - A Briefing by CIPFA Networks
This short document provides a briefing on the main elements in Budget 2012 which affect the public and local authority sector.
morePopular Downloads this Week
- Personalisation and Resource Allocation
- Personal Budgets A Rough Financial Guide Working Document – Edition 2 – June 2010
- CIPFA Social Care Finance - The ABC of Personal Budgets
- CIPFA Social Care Finance - Responding to the Demographic Challenge
- Making the Most of the Funding being Routed through Health
Join Us!
There are numerous benefits to becoming a member of SC-FAN, including the latest news and events in the sector.
Becoming a volunteer
- Do you wish to develop yourself professionally?
- Have you some good organisational practice to share?
- Would you like to write an article, do some research or speak at one of our events?
Opportunities exist for you to enhance your professional development.
Please get in touch with a member of this finance networks team at contact us to see how you could make a difference to your experience profile and contribute something valuable to your professional peers.
Partnership opportunities
Finance networks reaches several hundred local government finance professionals. Are you interested in partnering with this network in supporting our events, publicising and preparing high quality research materials or co-authoriring publications?
If so please get in touch with a member of this finance networks team at contact us to see how you could make a difference to our network service provision. We would be very pleased to hear from you.
Friends of ours
CIPFA provides a number of finance networks that specialise in particular areas of the public sector. Please visit the links below to obtain further details of these networks.
