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Disability
Provides a range of useful resources including information on the Disability Discrimination Act, the New Deal for Disabled People and the Disability Rights Commission.
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Direct Payments
Direct payments are designed to create more flexibility in the provision of social services. Giving money in place of social care services means people have greater choice and control over their lives, and are able to make their own decisions about how care is delivered. This site provides links to the full text of Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 Policy and Practice Guidance; An Easy Guide to Receiving Direct Payments and information on where the printed copies can be obtained.
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Continuing Care
The Change Agent Team is working with the Department of Health policy team to develop a national framework for continuing care. This framework aims to make the assessment process easier to understand and operate and to improve consistency both at a national and local level.
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Dignity in Care
The Dignity in Care initiative has been set up to ensure all older people are treated with dignity when using health and social care services.
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Carers
This site is aimed at professionals who work with carers. If you are a carers' lead or other health and social care professional working with carers you will find the information on this site of interest. The site contains Government guidance and regulations affecting carers and details of the Carers Grant.
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Care Trusts
Care trusts are a type of NHS body introduced in 2002 to provide better-integrated health and social care. By combining both NHS responsibilities and local authority health responsibilities under a single management, care trusts can increase continuity of care and simplify administration. To date there are only 10 care trusts. Publications, information and news about care trusts.
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Care Services Efficiency Delivery (CSED)
The Care Services Efficiency Delivery (CSED) programme has been established to support implementation of the recommendations of the Independent Review of Public Sector Efficiency, led by Sir Peter Gershon. The objective of the programme is to deliver real efficiency gains and improve the overall quality of person-centred care services. The CSED initiatives, developed in collaboration with councils will support the implementation of the proposals in the Our Health, Our Care, Our Say White paper.
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Better Government for Older People (BGOP)
Better Government for Older People [BGOP] is a thriving movement of organisations working in partnership to change attitudes and services in order to achieve an improved society for older people across the UK.
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Care Services Development Initiative (CSDI)
The Care Services Development Initiative (CSDI) is a partnership between the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and the Department of Health's Care Services Directorate (CSD).It provides an opportunity to combine SCIE's knowledge-based approach with strategic development capacity for care services, which will have a real impact on policy formation and influence on the delivery of services.
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Research Governance
The Research Governance Framework for health and social care (RGF) defines the broad principles of good research governance and is key to ensuring that health and social care research is conducted to high scientific and ethical standards. The Framework was published in 2001 (second edition, 2003) with the aim of raising standards and clarifying the responsibilities of all parties in the research process. The Framework applies to both health and social care.
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Department of Health
The home page of the Department of Health which provides a range of documents, guidance and publications related to health and social care policy for adult services, many of which are relevant to child and family work.,,,0,0,,1,0,1,target=0
14,34,0,Home Office,,http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/,The home page of the Home Office. This site provides access to a range of resources linked to such areas as crime and policing, immigration and nationality, drug use and race and community issues. The site also contains a research and statistics section.
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Healthcare Commission
The Healthcare Commission promotes improvement in the quality of the NHS and independent healthcare. It has a wide range of responsibilities, all aimed at improving the quality of healthcare. It has a statutory duty to assess the performance of healthcare organisations, award annual performance ratings for the NHS and coordinate reviews of healthcare by others.
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Scottish Social Services Council
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) regulates and registers the social services workforce. It promotes and develops education and training for the social services workforce in Scotland. It is also responsible for regulating and awarding professional social work qualifications.
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Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care
The Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care is commonly known as the Care Commission. Its tasks are to register, monitor, inspect and enforce standards for agencies providng care services. It also hears complaints from service users and providers.
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Audit Commission
The task of the Audit Commission is to ensure that public money is used economically, efficiently and effectively in local government. From April 2004 it will cease to be involved in joint reviews or other inspection or assessment work on social care, though it will retain its duties with respect to other local authority services, including Comprehensive Performance Assessment work.
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Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
The Social Care Institute for Excellence gathers and publicises knowledge about how to make improve social care services. SCIE is an independent organisation created in 2001 in response to the government drive to improve quality in social care services across England and Wales. It draws upon the knowledge of users, carers, academics and professionals to discover what works in social care and to promote and improve good practice. SCIE's work Is closely allied to the regulation and inspection responsibilities undertaken by the Social Services Inspectorate, the National Care Standards Commission and the General Social Services Council and their counterparts in Wales and Northern Ireland. It will also be working closely with the training organisation Topss. As well as collecting knowledge and reviewing research and practice in order to promote best practice.
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Primary Care Trusts
Primary Care Trusts are freestanding, statutory bodies accountable to their health authority. They have the same overall functions as primary care groups. However, the NHS Plan states that by April 2004 the
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Performance Assessment Framework (PAF)
This site provides the Performance Assessment Framework for Personal Social Services (PSS). It gives details of the PAF and the objectives, indicators and targets for social services and sets out the a rrangements to assess the performance of each council with social services responsibilities within the wider Best Value regime. It includes information on Best Value and the joint health and social service agenda.
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National Institute for Clinical Excellence
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence was set up as a Special Health Authority for England and Wales on 1 April 1999. It is part of the National Health Service (NHS), and its role is to provide patients, health professionals and the public with authoritative, robust and reliable guidance on current 'best practice'. The guidance will cover both individual health technologies (including medicines, medical devices, diagnostic techniques, and procedures) and the clinical management of specific conditions. Its job therefore is to promote clinical and cost effectiveness through guidance and audit, aiming its work particularly at frontline staff. It advises on best practice in treatment and assesses new interventions. SCIE, the Social Care Institute of Excellence, that is similarly committed to the promotion of 'best practice' within social care, currently collaborates with NICE on work of mutual interest.
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General Social Care Council (GSCC)
The GSCC is a regulatory and registration body and, like the National Care Standards Commission, came to life under the Care Standards Act 2000. It has issued codes of conduct and practice for social care workers and social care employers; has started to register of practising professionals; and it regulates and supports social work education and training. This latter function it took over from the now defunct Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work (CCETSW), but responsibility for the education and training of all other social care staff rests with the Training Organisation for Personal Social Services (TOPPS). Care Workers and be physically fit to do their jobs. Registration will be a seal of approval of competence and safety to practice.
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