East Midlands Social Care Joint Improvement Partnership Project Summary April 2010

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Personalisation

Programme Board Chair: Ian Anderson, Lincolnshire County Council DASS
Transformation Director : Jan Clark, Lincolnshire County Council.
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PROJECT

/ PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Complete / Consultancy support (iMpower)
451 / Regional contract for consultancy support with transformation work, comprising:
·  56 individual support sessions to LAs.
·  3 Regional workshops: Commissioning, Workforce Development (with SfC) & one topic tbc.
·  6 action learning sets: 3 for SDS leads: ULOs, Personalisation & Mental Health, Personalisation & Hard to Reach Groups. 3 for Personalisation Leads: Personalisation & Rural Communities, Social Capital & Universal Services
Project Sponsor: Ian Anderson, Lincolnshire County Council –
Project Officer: Jill Buchanan-Huck, Lincs CC -
Complete / Efficiency Systems & Processes (CSED)
453 / Support to LAs to meet efficiency targets, improve & personalise processes.
·  2 regional CSED consultants working with LAs on agreed priorities
·  Project Manager (Garry McKay) to identify & share good practice from around the region
Project Sponsor: Paul McKay, Nottinghamshire County Council –
Project Officer: Garry McKay, Nottinghamshire County Council -
On-going / Efficiency Co-ordination
473 / Support to LAs to share experience and knowledge on efficiency initiatives, and to co-ordinate shared efficiency initiatives between LAs. Also, to advise on efficiency developments in other regions.
Project Manager: Garry McKay, Nottingham County Council –
On-going / Mental health & personalisation
452 / To increase the take up of self directed support by people with mental ill-health.
5 sub-regional partnership projects, building on work within existing transformation plans. Aim to achieve an equitable proportion of people with mental ill-health as part of their self directed support target (NI 130).
Project Sponsor: Jill Guild, Strategic Health Authority Improvement Team -
On-going / Co-production & ULOs
472 / To support the development & engagement of ULOs within each LA area by 2010. Initial consultancy support procured to map current progress and identify support needs of ULOs to inform a full plan by June 09.
Project Sponsor: Sue Batty, DH East Midlands, Adult Social Care Programme Manager
On-going / TASC Personalisation Programme
450 / To provide leadership for the regional TASC programme, providing some regional support programmes (including the Self Directed Support Network) and some support at local level to help ensure that all local authorities achieve the TASC policy outcomes.
Programme Director: Jan Clark –
Programme support officer: Vicky Pearson –
2 / Prevention & Early Intervention
Programme Board Chair: Dave Pearson, Nottinghamshire County Council DASS
Complete / Carers
457 / To support development of the carers agenda in transformation work, through:
·  Development of a tool kit of regional good practice & self assessment checklist
·  Make links between carers and transformation agendas & monitor progress (NI 130 carers)
·  Engage health agencies in carers agenda
·  Support implementation of carers aspects of national dementia strategy
Project Sponsor: Ruth Lake, Leicester City Council –
Project Officer: Paul Mansfield –
On-going / Implementing the national dementia strategy
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463 / A region-wide group will be established to oversee implementation of the national dementia strategy and co-ordinate some activity at regional level. 5 sub-regional posts (Local Dementia Programme Leads) will be developed to provide diagnostic advice and improvement support to sub-regional health and social care economies with their plans. The plans will involve key stakeholders and will focus on delivering the outcomes in the strategy for people with dementia and their carers.
Project Sponsor: Brenda Howard NHS Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT

Project Managers: Annette Lumb, DH East Midlands –
Jill Guild, NHS East Midlands
On-going / Prevention and early intervention
467 / Sub-regional workshops to undertake diagnostic of the scope for improved productivity and innovation in terms of the prevention agenda, primarily for older people. The programme of support will include assessment against evidence-based practice in Partnerships for Older People’s Pilots. Focus will be on secondary prevention and joint working with PCTs to secure joint commissioning plans.
Project Sponsor: David Pearson, Nottinghamshire County Council –
Project co-ordinator: Margaret McGlade –
3 / Safeguarding & Dignity
Programme Board DASS Chair: Sheila Downey, Derby City DASS
On-going / Quality assurance project
455 / Safeguarding Development Manager appointed to support the strengthening of arrangements to safeguard vulnerable people across the East Midlands. The project will help to improve standards; share good practice and improve consistency across the region. Initial baseline audit undertaken using a quality assurance, self assessment tool, which identified two key project work streams:
·  The Involvement of Vulnerable People in the Safeguarding Process
·  Thresholds, Vulnerability and Eligibility Criteria
Three groups will support the work of the project and the wider work of the Board:
1.East Midlands Local Ownership Team, 2.East Midlands Local Authority Safeguarding Adults Group,
2.East Midlands Safeguarding Adults Forum.
A conference is planned for September 2010 to highlight good practice in the region and the work of the project. A website will be developed to share both the learning from the project work streams and local, regional and national resources. Initial work has also begun to develop a Regional Safeguarding Chairs Network. A Safeguarding Concordat has also been developed for the Region
Project Sponsor: Jon Wilson, Nottinghamshire County Council–
Project Officer: Jane Foster, Nottinghamshire County Council –
On-going / Improving medication management in care homes / ·  Ongoing dissemination of information/good practice guidance.
·  Pharmacy consultancy input to care home sector to improve medication management.
·  Follow up to regional medication management conference (November 2008) local action points in place.
Project Officer: Darren Allsobrook –
On-going / Dignity in care project
456 / Joint Project manager post working in Leicester City and Leicestershire to develop a model for rolling out Dignity in Care and increasing the numbers of Dignity Champions. Model then to be shared across the region.
Kite Mark Recognition Scheme for care homes launched 19th March 2010 at a regional dignity event.
Project Sponsors: Claire Jones, Leicestershire County Council –
Ruth Lake, Leicester City Council –
Joint Project Manager: Annette Forbes, Leicestershire CC –
Early development / Mental Capacity Act & Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
469 / Project re auditing of awareness and impact of MCA & DoLS (Requirements for safeguarding) primary care (GPs) and Secondary Care.
Project Sponsor: Janet Rawson (AD, Safeguarding Adults & Quality Assurance) Nottinghamshire NHS.
Project Manager: TBA
Early development / Serious Case Reviews & Untoward Incidents
477 / This project will establish a regional process for Serious Case Reviews. It will provide consistency across LA borders for partner agencies, efficiencies for Councils and a consistent benchmark for the Care Quality Commission in assessing performance.
Project Sponsor: Mick Connell, Leicestershire County Council –
Project Manager: Laura Sanderson. Leicestershire County Council, Adult Social Care.
Early development / Improving Health & Supporting Justice.
468 / Key objective of the regional programme is to support the implementation of Lord Bradley’s review of mental health in the criminal justice system and to:
1. Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of systems by managing performance;
2. Lead collaboration across systems to support all offenders having the same access to health and social care services as the rest of the population.
The East Midlands approach is to move towards mainstreaming the delivery of the national strategy and ensuring that each locality is delivering the objectives of the national strategy within their local arrangements, and that these realise cost efficiencies together with quality improvements in their outcomes. Maintaining and improving protection for all is integral to this project.
Specific projects in each sub-locality will identify improvements in assessment of need, access to mainstream services and interventions that prevent unnecessary use of high cost specialist services.
Project Sponsor: Andrew Kenworthy
Project Lead: Robert J Nisbet –
4 / Workforce
Programme Board Chair: Charlie McNally, Northamptonshire County Council DASS
Complete / Workforce data
461 / Targeted support to enable all regional LAs to up-load data onto the National Minimum Data Set (NMDS-SC) for Social Care.
Project Sponsor: Charlie MacNally –
Project Officer: Amanda Ashworth -
Complete / Workforce plans
461 / Collation and support with LAs workforce plans, through:
·  Consultation to identify each LAs workforce planning priorities.
·  Regional workshops held to support finding solutions to common issues.
Project Sponsor: Charlie MacNally –
Project Officer: Amanda Ashworth -
Complete / Workforce remodelling
461 / 5 regional workshops held to support workforce remodelling and 10 case studies of good practice produced.
Project Sponsor: Charlie MacNally –
Project Officer: Christine Collymore –
5 / Commissioning and Market Development
Programme Board Chair: Kim Curry, Leicester City Council DASS
Complete / Roll out of the Care Funding Calculator (CfC)
474 / The CfC is an excel-based tool that helps deliver efficiencies through improved definition & negotiation of support needs & costs in expensive placements. This project has helped roll-out these freely-available tools across the East Midlands and resulted in the region’s local authorities delivering savings in excess of £4.5 million.
Project Sponsor: Mick Connell, Leicestershire County Council –
Helen Richmond –
On-going / Web-enabling the CfC
480 / The CfC is to be web-enabled to make it easier to access, use and keep up-to-date. This work will be undertaken collaboratively with the SE and WM RIEPs and links with national plans to develop and use this tool with other high-cost client groups and service providers.
Contacts: Linda Brown –
Helen Richmond, EM IEP –
Complete / Shaping the Market in Learning Disability Services
940 / Final 6 months phase of a project that developed a regional framework contract with four providers for supported living & residential care for people with learning disabilities. The project worked with providers to push down costs and improve quality. Use of these contracts will now be embedded across the region to maximise gains from the work.
Project Sponsor: Mick Connell, Leicestershire County Council –
Project Officer: Surinder Peberdy -
Early development / Developing the local care market
481 / This capital funding project will determine & deliver activity that stimulates the local care & support market, promoting a diverse range of providers of both traditional and non-traditional personalised support. This will include exploration of web-based platforms on which providers can advertise and from which individuals can purchase services.
Contacts: Sue Batty, DH East Midlands ,
Helen Richmond, EM IEP -
On-going / Regional Approach to Residential Rehabilitation for Adult Drug & Alcohol Services
478 / The East Midlands has small populations of adults requiring specialist residential rehabilitation services, which make planning and commissioning these services difficult on a locality basis. This project builds on work done by a regional post (funded by the Crime & Disorder Partnerships) to co-ordinate and develop commissioning of Tier 4 services. It will 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.
Contact: Lynn Mathews, National Treatment Agency –
Early development / Micro Market Development
484 / Market development is a key part of the delivery of the TASC Commissioning milestone and the successful implementation of Putting People First. Micro market providers (five staff or less) are a vital part of a diverse local market and were chosen as a priority because, due to increasing barriers, numbers will continue to decrease without proactive intervention. This project aims to assist all EM LAs to develop an outline micro market strategy and to be supported in implementing their strategy.
Project Sponsor: Tracie Rees
Contact: Sue Batty –
6 / Valuing People
Programme Board Chair: Mick Connell, Leicestershire County Council DASS
On-going / Employment project
459 / Part-time project manager to establish regional baseline data, share best practice and support LAs to develop their employment strategies (using the National employment strategy) to support increasing numbers of people with learning disabilities into paid work.
Project Sponsor: Mick Connell –
Project Manager: Helen Mycock –
Project Officer: Justin Hammond –
On-going / Person centred planning project
459 / Part-time project manager to establish regional baseline data, share best practice and support LAs to develop their person centred planning strategies, linking into self directed support programmes. The project will support groups prioritised in Valuing People Now to have a Person Centred Plan.
Project Sponsor: Mick Connell –
Project Manager: Helen Mycock –
Project Officer: Sue Wilson –
On-going / Improving health project
460 / Two part-time project leads working to support the 9 Learning Disability Partnership Boards and corresponding PCTs to carry out local health self assessments by end of June 09. Assessments will be signed off by PCT Director leads and validated by the SHA by end of September. Outcomes will be included in PCT Local Operating Plans for 10/11 and formulate a local health improvement plan.
Project Sponsors: Mick Connell -
David Marsden –
Project Manager: Helen Mycock –
Project Officers: Sue Wilson – and
Judi Thorley –
Early development / ‘Getting a Home of My Own’
475 / A multi-agency project to develop & implement a programme that will create a major strategic change in market provision for people with learning disabilities; significantly reducing the number of people living in residential care and increasing housing with support options. Learning will be shared across the region. DH’s national CSED team are researching cost-effective options and models for accommodation & support needs & will input to the work. Service providers will be engaged in developing solutions and as key co-ordinators of change.
Project Sponsor: Andrew Milroy, Derbyshire County Council -
Early development / LD Cost Effective Housing Solutions
483 / A collaborative project (led by CSED) to help local authorities better understand how they are currently using their resources to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities and to identify opportunities for improving the cost effectiveness of current service provision. The approach puts particular emphasis on opportunities to use housing and assistive technology based alternatives to residential care and early intervention and prevention, in line with Putting People First. CSED advisers collect information from a variety of sources, carry out analysis and make recommendations to participating LA senior managers and commissioners.
Project Sponsor – Rachel Holynska, DH East Midlands -
Project Manager – Rob Griffiths, Care Services Efficiency Delivery programme -
7 / Performance
Programme Board Chair: Bill Robertson, Derbyshire County Council DASS
On-going / Transforming data into information for effective commissioning
482 / This projects aims to improve the collection, quality and analysis of social care data in order to ensure local authorities and their partners have the information required to make effective strategic commissioning decisions. This project will build on the work currently being undertaken by DH/NHS.
Project Sponsor: Bill Robertson, Derbyshire County Council–
Project Manager: Judith Horsfall, DH East Midlands

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