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Social Exclusion Unit
Social exclusion is a shorthand term for what can happen when people or areas suffer from a combination of linked problems such as unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, high crime environments, bad health, poverty and family breakdown. The Social Exclusion Unit was set up in December 1997. Its remit is to help improve Government action to reduce social exclusion by producing 'joined up solutions to joined up problems'.
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Skills for Care
Social care workforce strategy body TOPSS England became Skills for Care in April, 2005. Still led by employer networks and other care interests, it is now concerned specifically with adult social care, while children's services workforce strategy has been taken up by the new Children's Workforce Development Council.
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Single Assessment Process (SAP)
The single assessment process, introduced in the NSF for older people, aims to make sure older people's care needs are assessed thoroughly and accurately, but without procedures being needlessly duplicated by different agencies.
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Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPP)
Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPP) is a
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Prevention
Promoting the independence and well being of older people and preventing or delaying their need for more costly intensive services is increasingly being seen as a major strand of health and social care policy. Indeed the policy thrust on prevention has recognised the need for stronger links with the wider well being agenda of public provision, including transport, leisure, housing, education etc. As well as promoting people's general sense of well being, there is also an expectation that this will prevent or defer the need for more costly intensive support thus releasing capacity for social care to play its specialist role in meeting the needs of people with more complex needs.
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Our health our care our say
The Our health, our care, our say White Paper sets out a vision to provide people with good quality social care and NHS services in the communities where they live. Social care services are changing to give service users more independence, choice and control, in line with responses to the Green Paper Independence, well-being and choice.
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National Service Framework for Older People
The NSF for older people was published on 27 March 2001. It sets new national standards and service models of care across health and social services for all older people, whether they live at home, in residential care or are being looked after in hospital.
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National Service Framework for Mental Health
This National Service Framework addresses the mental health needs of working age adults up to 65. It sets out national standards; national service models; local action and national underpinning programmes for implementation; and a series of national milestones to assure progress, with performance indicators to support effective performance management.
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National Service Framework for Long Term Conditions
The Long-term (Neurological) Conditions National Service Framework (NSF) was launched in March 2005. The NSF aims to transform the way health and social care services support people to live with long-term neurological conditions. Key themes are independent living, care planned around the needs and choices of the individual, easier, timely access to services and joint working across all agencies and disciplines involved.
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National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL)
NCIL's core objectives are: to promote independent living; to set up a forum for discussion of independent living; to contribute to national policy development relating to independent living; to promote and support the use of direct payments to enable independent living; to ensure that the options of independent living and direct payments are available to all who want them, on a basis of equality.
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Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provides a statutory framework to empower and protect vulnerable people who are not able to make their own decisions. It makes it clear who can take decisions, in which situations, and how they should go about this. It enables people to plan ahead for a time when they may lose capacity.
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Intermediate Care
Intermediate care is provided by a range of professionals, including general practitioners and hospital doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, and social workers, with support from care assistants trained in rehabilitation and administrative staff. They need to draw on the expertise of a wide range of other health care professionals and also require the support of other services provided by local authorities and the independent sector.
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Integrating Community Equipment Services (ICES)
ICES (Integrating Community Equipment Services) is a Department of Health funded initiative across health and social care to develop community equipment services in England, removing unnecessary barriers for users and modernising services. Community equipment services help disabled people of all types and ages, including children and young people, to develop their full potential and to maintain their health and independence.
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Integrated Care Network
The Network is a Department of Health, Health and Social Care Agent Team, and National and Primary Care Trust Development Programme initiative. The site aims to facilitate access to and sharing of knowledge and experience of working in integrated care. It covers the themes of organisational development, policy, research, inclusion, performance and evaluation and governance. Each theme contains examples of research evidence of what works in integrated care, a resources database and a discussion area.
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Individual Budgets
An Individual Budget is designed to provide individuals who currently receive services greater choice and control over their support arrangements. The government is committed to piloting individual budgets with a view to rolling them out nationally should they prove successful. The individual budgets pilot project is a cross-government initiative led by the Department of Health working closely with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Communities and Local Government.
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Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (ICMA) Service
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 created the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) service. Its purpose is to help particularly vulnerable people who lack capacity who are facing important decisions made by the NHS and local authorities (LAs). The Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Department of Health are working together to bring the Mental Capacity Act into force in April 2007. The Act will apply to England and Wales for adults aged 16 and over.
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Improvement Network
The Improvement Network supports improvement in the delivery of local public services through addressing the current needs of local councils. It offers practical support for local authority managers and tools to support your council's improvement journey.
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Falls
The NSF for Older People (Standard 6), is clear about the need to reduce the number of falls in older people, which result in serious injury, and to ensure effective treatment and rehabilitation for those who have fallen. The NHS, working in partnership with councils, will take action to prevent falls and reduce resultant fractures or other injuries in their populations of older people.
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Housing Corporation
The Housing Corporation is a UK government agency whose mission is 'to work to improve people's quality of life through social housing'. This site contains information about the Corporation, its activities and publications.
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Fair access and charging
Guidance for councils and care trusts about fair charging policies for home care and other non-residential care, and advice about eligibility criteria for adult social care.
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