Overview
The Adult Social Care Forum brings together sector leaders, practitioners and researchers to address the current challenges across adult social care, and explore opportunities for improving support and service provision in light of the recent December 2021 ‘People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform white paper’ released by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
The Forum will explore what effective service delivery looks like in the context of rising demand, staff shortages, and funding pressures, providing attendees with the latest policy and funding updates from the DHSC, key inspections guidance from the CQC, best practice case studies, and practical workshops to support them in improving service delivery across the board.
What to expect:
- Insights and guidance on the December 2021 People at the Heart of Care White Paper from the Director General, Adult Social Care at the DHSC
- An adult social care inspections update from the CQC including key guidance around recruitment and retention
- Skills for Care to provide an interactive workshop on workforce recruitment and retention, and managing transitions in care
- Analysis of key lessons learned from Covid-19
- Best practice examples from local councils who have improved staff wellbeing using technology to increase the independence of vulnerable adults
Key Features of an Online IG Event
Key Speakers
Other Speakers
Agenda
- 9th March
- 10th March
- One on one networking opportunities and live delegate meet ups
- Replay functions so you never miss a session
- Live chat, questioning and polling tools
- Real time resources and presentations
- A next generation conference engagement platform
Before proceedings get underway, this short explainer session will explore how you can get the most out of our new next generation Conference platform.
Our IG Team will run through how to make virtual connections, creating networking meet ups, accessing content on demand and how to use our new Q&A, chat functions and virtual polling tools.
- Highlighting the importance of clear career pathways and ongoing training to improve recruitment, retention and address workforce depletions
- Examining how person-centred approaches to care can be implemented to improve care quality
- Discussing the role culturally appropriate care practices can have in addressing health inequalities
- Examining how the proposals set out in the People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform white paper will impact service delivery over the next 3 years
- Outlining how the social care cap will work in practice, including how the cap impacts council payments
- Sharing how the Health and Social Care Levy will be used to support the delivery of adult social care and workforce recruitment and retention
- Highlighting how to access the funds raised through the Levy to support service delivery in your Local Authority
Devon County Council implemented a wellbeing plan in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, seeking to establish a sustainable model for staff wellbeing that would support staff to be happy and effective in their role. This session will provide key insights into:
- The impact of the Wellbeing Plan on staff, and on recruitment and retention
- Best practice strategies for supporting staff wellbeing, including the role of Wellbeing Supporters and the Wellbeing Reference Group
- Highlighting how the wellbeing strategy has impacted service delivery
- Sharing future plans for continuing to support staff wellbeing at Devon County Council
BASW’s Capabilities Statements were commissioned by DHSC to ensure personalised care and support, human rights-based practice, and robust advocacy are available for people and families. This session will support you in developing practice that positively support young people in transition to adulthood.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact of taking a person-centred and human rights-based approach to transitions
- Know where to access resources to support the implementation of best practices in transition
- Understand best practice for effectively supporting young people during the transition into adulthood
- One on one networking opportunities and live delegate meet ups
- Replay functions so you never miss a session
- Live chat, questioning and polling tools
- Real time resources and presentations
- A next generation conference engagement platform
Before proceedings get underway, this short explainer session will explore how you can get the most out of our new next generation Conference platform.
Our IG Team will run through how to make virtual connections, creating networking meet ups, accessing content on demand and how to use our new Q&A, chat functions and virtual polling tools.
- Highlighting key learnings for the social care sector from the Covid-19 pandemic
- Examining how policy and funding developments following the pandemic can enable the social care sector to recover moving forward
- Highlighting the role of workforce development in pandemic recover for the social care sector
- Sharing the key recommendations from the Commission on the Role of Housing in the Future of Care and Support’s report on housing with care and support
- Highlighting the role of local co-production forums in improving commissioning and design
- Sharing how Local Authorities can partner with providers to pool statutory funding and drive improvements in housing with care and support
According to the National Care Forum, the social care sector is facing “the most acute recruitment and retention crisis” in its history. Using innovative recruitment and retention strategies can allow care providers to focus on effective delivery and improving outcomes. Skills for Care provide support for service providers to create a well-led, skilled and valued social care workforce.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the balance between attracting and recruiting the right staff and development and retention, to maintain a skilled workforce
- Learn how to implement innovative strategies to attract candidates, including the importance of values-based recruitment
- Know how to frame vacancies to attract the right candidates and improve staff retention
- Examine your training and development practices to improve staff retention
Soctim have supported the NHS and Councils to transform service delivery thorough digitally enabled integrated care. This session will provide an insight into how data can be used to improve service delivery, and reduce costs.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand models for collecting data, and how to integrate data from technology enabled care services with other data from health and social care
- Learn how to use data to evaluate and improve services, and best practice for carrying out data mapping through practical examples
- Know how to use data to identify priorities for service improvement and cost savings
*programme subject to change
Audience
This Forum is specifically designed for Local Government, and the Health and Voluntary Sectors. Typical job titles will include:
- Directors of Adult Services
- Social Workers
- Heads of Care Planning
- Heads of Adult Social Care
- Operations Managers for Care Services
- Mental Health & Learning Disability Service Lead
