CIPFA Social Care Finance (SCF) Forum

About The Social Care Finance Advisory Network

The mission of the network is to provide timely and relevant events for delegates covering the challenges of the adult social care agenda. Its events have been specifically geared towards local authority finance and service staff who are closely involved in the planning and delivery of adult social care. The network has grown from strength to strength over the last couple of years. In 2009, four series of events were delivered as well a mini series, to nearly 400 delegates. This was nearly one third higher than the delegate numbers in 2008. The overall theme has been the personalisation of budgets to purchase social care. Specific events in 2009 covered the following topics; resource allocation models, costing of services, efficiency and commissioning, accounting systems and the audit of social care.

CIPFA's Social Care Finance Advisory Network (SCF) is pleased to announce its 2010 programme of activities for social care finance. These build on well-supported programmes geared towards social care based finance staff. They provide a programme of local events specifically designed to support adult social care finance practitioners. The 2009 calendar year saw an excellent growth in the practitioner take up of social care events with delegate numbers approaching 400 with some 300 delegate e-mail enquiries being resolved.

The programme has been designed to complement the activities of the CIPFA Social Care Panel. Those involved with Adult Social Care Services finance are facing huge changes including budgetary pressures and the challenges of supporting an increasingly ageing population within the UK. All our events are advertised in the current service plan. There are five countrywide venues covered in each series which should provide practitioners with a much greater choice in attending and benefiting from our support to them.