Joint Improvement Partnership Projects seeking Regional Improvement & Efficiency Partnership (RIEP) funding in 2009/10

NB Funding for projects21, 23 24 already agreed from separate one-off capital pot allocation.

12. / ‘Getting a home of my own’ (Co-funded by DCC - £70K) £100k
Derbyshire-led project (project manager and support post) to support people with learning disabilities to get a home of their own, which is a key theme in the national strategy for people with learning disabilities. The project will be a joint one across adult social care, District Councils and Supporting People to develop a full business case and implement a programme to change the shape of provision from residential care to housing with support and share the learning with other councils in the region. It will build on learning from the ‘Shaping the Market’ project to make strategic transformation on a larger scale across a range of partners. It will be supported by DH’s national CSED team who are undertaking a piece of national research on the cost-effective options and models for accommodation & support needs. The project will also engage service providers in developing solutions and as key co-ordinators of change.
Programme Board:Regional Learning Disabilities Partnership Boards/JIP group
Contact:Andrew Milroy, DerbyshireCounty Council
13. / Efficiency Programme (CSED) £155k
Phase 2 funding for CSED support to work with LAs to deliver efficiencies and improve processes in line with personalisation agenda. All DASS agreed to support the project and agreed to a shared target of delivering £500k of net efficiencies by March 2010. They have collectively agreed to share the risk and put up a £90,000 deposit, refundable if the netefficiency gains target is not realised.
Programme Board: Personalisation
Contact: Paul McKay, Nottinghamshire County Council
14. / Shaping the Care Home Market for Older People(linked to No 23) £50k
Funding will secure a Project manager to promote and support the region’s 9 Local Authorities to stimulate strategic market development and develop regional procurement activities in the care home market for older people. Different arrangements currently operate across the region which has contributed to a range of prices, a fragmented market, different documentation and a reliance on the Care Quality Commission Standards. The primary focus will be on developing common procurement arrangements, documentation, procedures and a process for sharing price modelling information to assist with local price determination. This will provide efficiencies for authorities and providers.
Programme Board: Market Development
Contact: Colin Selbie, DerbyshireCounty Council
15. / Workforce & Leadership Development £20k
This current, co-funded project supports local authorities to develop robust workforce plans, remodel the workforce and implement the National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) in line with the needs of Putting People First.
Programme Board: Workforce Development
16. / Shaping the Market in Learning Disability Services £37.5k
Request for 6 months funding for the final phase of this project working with providers to push down costs and improve quality. 4 regional providers were successful following the tender, led by Leicestershire CC (2 residential & 2 supported living). This extension will enable use of these contracts to be embedded across the region to maximise gains from the work. Provider quality and project evaluations will be completed, and an exit strategy implemented to mainstream this activity.
Programme Board: Market Development
Contact: Surinder Peberdy, LeicestershireCounty Council
17. / Serious Case Reviews & Untoward Incidents £75k
The objective is to establish a regional process for Serious Case Reviews. This will provide consistency across LA borders for partner agencies, efficiencies for Councils and a consistent benchmark for the Care Quality Commission in assessing performance.
Programme Board: Safeguarding & Dignity
Contact: Sallyanne Johnson, NottinghamCity Council
18. / Accessing Primary Healthcare, Housing Support, and Community Care for vulnerable prisoners who will need it on release. £60k
A locality will be invited to lead a project to develop a scoping tool for assessing the needs of vulnerable prisoners in East Midlandsprisons,who need access to health and social care services for their protection and continuity of care. This will inform best practice on better management of vulnerable prisoners prior to and on release, ensuring that safeguarding policy and practice is developed in line with this. The funding will provide a project manager for the host organisation, which and will also gather evidence regarding savings that could be delivered by reducing re-offending.
Programme Board: Safeguarding & Dignity
Contact: Rob Nisbet, DH East Midlands
19. / Learning Disabilities Social Inclusion & Personalisation £25k
Extension ofexisting co-funded projects to improve support for people with learning disabilities to live an ordinary life within their local community; through regional employment and person-centred planning projects. Funding secures 2 part time regional project leads, who will support Learning Disabilities Partnership Boards to deliver on these key areas on the Valuing People Now strategy.
Programme Board: Valuing People Now Delivery Board
Contact: Helen Mycock, DH East Midlands
20. / Regional Approach to Residential Rehabilitation for Adult Drug & Alcohol Services £20k
Across the region there are small populations of adults requiring specific residential rehabilitation services. It can be difficult to adequately plan and commission these services on a locality basis. A regional post & steering group are already funded by the Crime & Disorder Partnerships until March 2010 to co-ordinate and develop commissioning of Tier 4 services (residential rehabilitation, inpatient treatment – detoxification and stabilisation, move-on, aftercare and wraparound support). Additional funding is required to support regional contract advertising and the development of a data collection system to support the analysis of each authority’s placements, budget management and regional analysis capability.
Programme Board: Market Development
Contact: Lynn Mathews, National Treatment Agency
21. / Web-enabling the Care Funding Calculator Capital fund - £200k
Funding for central work to web-enable the Care Funding Calculator (CfC) to make it easier to access, use and keep up-to-date. Work will be undertaken in conjunction with SE & WM regions. Links to project 16 & 22.
Programme Board: Market Development
Contact: Helen Richmond, EM IEP Support Team
22. / Rolling-out the Care Funding Calculator (CFC) £70k
The CFC is to be developed nationally for use with other high-cost client groups. This proposal builds on the initial regional training/implementation of the CFC in Learning Disability services (and the significant savings already being delivering) by more extensive roll-out of the tool across the 9 local authorities and, once successfully embedded, roll-out use with other client groups and service providers.
Programme Board: Market Development
Contact: Surinder Peberdy, LeicestershireCounty Council
23. / Developing the Local Care Marketplace Capital fund - 300k
Funding for regional activity to stimulate the local care & support market to promote a diverse range of providers of traditional and non-traditional support. This will include exploration of a web-based service catalogue on which providers could advertise and individuals purchase services.
Programme Board: Market Development
Contacts: Sue Batty, DH East Midlands, Helen Richmond, EM IEP
24. / Transforming Data for Effective Commissioning, Capital fund – 300k
Explore the options (including software options) to support the analysis of social care data into effective information to support local authorities and their partners with strategic commissioning decisions. (This project will build on the work currently being undertaken by DH/NHS.)
Programme Board: Performance
Contact: Judith Horsfall, DH East Midlands