Financing Personalised Social Care
CIPFA’s Finance Advisory Network (FAN) is pleased to announce the 2008 programme of activities for Social Care Finance. These build on well-supported programmes for corporate and children’s services-based finance staff. They provide a programme of local events specifically designed to support finance staff in Adult Social Care with practical programmes of practitioner-based support.
The programme has been designed to complement the activities of both the CIPFA Social Care Panel and the CIPFA Finance Advisory Network (FAN). Those involved with Social Services finance are facing a huge number of pressures and changes including
- Personalisation means that social care is on the brink of its most radical hange in 50 years. Individual budgets hold the promise of allowing people to shape public services to meet their needs, by turning users into innovators and investors who design and commission their own services.
Balancing the expectation of much tighter financial settlements against the expectations of the white paper: Our Health, Our Care, Our Say and the subsequent Making it Happen paper along with increasing expectations of carers and those they are caring for;
- Finding ways of responding to the increasing numbers and needs of those with learning and other disabilities in the context of calls for increasing levels of direct payments and individual budgets in the expectation that these demands can be funded from ever-increasing efficiency savings;
- Handling the continuing changes in the legislative and service environment including the future regulation of health and adult social care and the local government White Paper: Strong & Prosperous Communities and the recent structural changes in Health.
Workshops
We will be running three series of practitioner-based workshops on a regional basis to build on the events in 2007. These events will enable delegates to explore critical areas for 2008 through a mixture of presentations, incorporating current practice and local initiatives, and workshops where delegates can share experience and explore solutions to practical challenges.
April\May 2008 - Personalisation and Resource Allocation
June\July 2008 - Personalisation and Improved Outcomes at Less Cost
November\December 2007 - Personalisation and the Implications for Financial Systems
