ADASS eNews
Issue 515 - 26 September 2017UPCOMING EVENTS
National Children’s and Adults Services Conference
Bournemouth International Centre,11 - 13 October2017
Widely recognised as the most important annual event of its kind for councillors, directors, senior officers, policymakers and service managers with responsibilities for children's services, adult care and health in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors.
Come along and share, engage, network and participate with your peers. You will leave informed, stimulated and motivated to develop and improve your offer to your communities.CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW
ADASS Workforce Seminar
17 November 2017 – Tavistock Square, London
We are delighted to announce that the next joint ADASS & SCIE seminar day will take place on Friday 17 November 2017 and will focus on all things Workforce. This one-day seminar is focused on workforce; covering recruitment and retention, Approved Mental Health Professionals, case studies on strength-based approaches in practice and much more...
The seminar is open to all ADASS members, more details and how to book can be found here.
OUR VOICE
Accelerate: Preparing leaders for change – Coming soon...
As leaders in adult social care, we are operating in turbulent times. Navigating this environment means that we must manage complex change in a way which engages, is results driven and sustainable. ADASS is committed to supporting our members with their professional development. Working in partnership with Newton, we have co-designed a programme which will give senior leaders the opportunity to rapidly develop their capability to deliver effective strategic and operational change. The programme will involve four short residential modules over a 12 month period, starting in the new year. The programme will be open for applications on 12 October 2017. If you would like to register your interest please email: and look out for further details...
ADASS Media Report
Please see here for the latest round-up of ADASS in the media.
OUR WORK
Funding – Transforming Care
NHSE have recently finalised the Funding Transfer Agreement which sets out the national process for the transfer of funding from Specialised Commissioning (SC) to local Transforming Care Partnerships (TCPs). The flow of monies from SC will be facilitated via the monthly Revenue Transfer process that adjusts CCG allocations in the first instance. How funding is managed within each TCP may vary, but transferred funds will form part of the overall resource TCPs utilise to implement their local plans. This FTA process is about the “mechanics” of transferring funding from Specialised Commissioning to CCGs. It is important to note that the decisions underpinning that movement of funds should be TCP-led as a whole, and the FTA process sits as one part of the wider picture of the money moving around the system, including to local authorities. From this perspective, it is essential that LAs are equally and actively involved in the development of the proposed model of care and support, and, in particular, the underpinning financial plans, with the DASS and Chief Finance Officer having oversight. Without this level of engagement, and the subsequent evidence-base, LGA and ADASS are less able to represent the scale of the challenge for local authorities. We remain aware of some of the practical problems and challenges being raised by local authority partners within TCPs about the financial arrangements and issues being encountered
ADASS / LGA are:
- Exploring some work to model what local funding arrangements could look like to support local authorities;
- Providing bespoke support for local authorities, including through the LGA finance advisers.
- To increase capacity across the regions, we have recently recruited 8 LGA regional advisers. Local authorities can access support through these leads; this might be to request specific local support (including in relation to the finances), or to raise concerns or issues that can inform the national finance discussions taking place. [We will provide contact details of these new posts soon].
Annual mandatory workforce data return via Skills for Care’s NMDS-SC
Message on behalf of the ADASS President and Mental Health Co-Leads:
ADASS and Department of Health have an interest in learning more about the numbers of registered social workers who are Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHP) and Best Interest Assessors (BIA). NMDS-SC is able to collect that information but as this is not a mandatory field, we would recommend that all DASSs request the person in their Authority who is responsible for this data submission completes this data field on all registered SW’s individual worker records. This should then provide ADASS and DH with good data. Skills for Care will put specific information regarding this data request on their One Stop Shop online page and they will email each named user on the NMDS-SC with detailed instructions. However, Skills for Care cannot require that councils enter information, so the imperative needs to come from Directors to their staff.
Additional technical instructions for data inputters :
It is possible within the council’s NMDS-SC to log AMHP against SWs individual worker record and whilst Best Interest Assessor is not a qualification listed there is a workaround whereby if councils use the ‘any other assessor qualification’ explicitly for BIA for SWs, this will then be picked up by our Analysis team as recording that SW in a BIA role. Please select ‘Any Other Assessor Qualification’ from the drop down qualifications box, you would then select ‘working towards’ to avoid having to put in a ‘date achieved’ and in the free text box simply type in BIA
Rationale for collecting the info via NMDS-SC:
NMDS-SC is perfectly set up to gather this information and given that the annual mandatory submission is due Sept-Oct 2017 the data can be gathered very quickly and within a system that all LAs are already inputting to. Therefore, whilst the staff need to be requested to enter information against these particular data fields, it is a data return that they are mandated to submit anyway. Therefore, a further data collection or survey is not require. Guidance is available here
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Association of Directors of Children’s Services Bulletin
Click here to read the latest bulletin from the ADCS
Better Care Fund Bulletin
See here for this week’s issue of the Better Care Fund Bulletin: What does good mean? Disabled Facilities Grant: Test of resources training course, East Yorkshire’s Care Navigation Project and more...
Public Health Matters – weekly blog from Duncan Selbie
Please see here for the latest blog from Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive of Public Health England
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