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IPC delivers support for better children's commissioning
The Commissioning Support Programme has won the Children's Improvement Board tender to provide support to local authorities and progress the understanding and coordination of commissioning and productivity work in 2012. As a delivery partner for CSP, IPC is involved in providing this improvement support across the country. More information about CSP and this programme can be found here.
Commissioning an Effective Team around the Family Systems and Services
Drawing on recent work with a number of local partnership areas to develop Team around the Family services and systems, IPC presented key messages in the context of a one day conference in Wales for commissioners of Early Intervention and Prevention services for children and young people. For more information about this work and materials from the Conference, please contact Katy Burch.
New commissioning courses for 2012
IPC has announced dates for the CSP ‘Commissioning Skills Training for Children and Young People’s Commissioners’ course. The courses draws on CSP's work with local area partners to develop and implement good commissioning practice to help children’s commissioners to redesign services and achieve the best use of resources. Two courses will run: in Birmingham from April and in London from May. Full details can be found here.
IPC at Number 10 to advise government
IPC associate director Professor Andrew Kerslake visited 10 Downing Street recently to attend a meeting with key Cabinet Office officials and industry representatives to discuss the future development of social care. The government is keen to work with industry and the wider public sector to identify how procurement can be more strategic. Suppliers and commissioners need to speed up and simplify procurement and be more innovative in the way they work. The meeting was attended by ADASS President Peter Hay, incoming President Sarah Pickup and various provider sector leaders.
Understanding the Health and Social Care interface - IPC Partners' conference
Participants from our 8 partner organisations recently came together to explore the issues of service provision across health and social care with IPC and guest speakers. Issues considered at the two day event included building on existing partnerships to deliver services, the impact of proposed organisational changes to the NHS and the changing role of local authorities in facilitating local health and well-being agendas. For more information about the IPC Network partnership please contact us.
FREE taster sessions for Advanced Diploma in Leading Care Services
Providers interested in our course to help them take their business forward will be able to attend one of two free taster sessions: on March 1st in Oxford or March 15th in Birmingham. More details on the Advanced Diploma can be found here.
IPC Director to lecture on demographics and pressure points in social care
Oxford Brookes University will host a series of lectures to consider aspects of change in social care, health and welfare, beginning in January. On March 8th, IPC Director, Professor Keith Moultrie will consider demographics and pressure points in social care. Keith will bring the expertise of IPC’s experience of working with social care providers, commissioners and policy makers at all levels to inform the discussion on the Dilnot Report on social care, prepared for the government in 2011.
Keith said: “I am looking forward to this lecture, which will further highlight the work IPC does in policy development and service delivery at all levels. The debate on social care will affect us all and it needs to involve a wider range of people.”
If you would like to book a place at this lecture please contact Andy Crick. Further information on the seminar programme can be found here.
Dates have been announced for IPC's highly popular new course for managers of care services and owners of care businesses. The Advanced Diploma in Leading Care Services has been developed with local employers to provide an essential insight into the needs of the care sector from the perspectives of providers, commissioners and service users.
The course is highly interactive and will equip participants with practical tools, skills and knowledge. Attendance on this accredited course will enable you to benefit from high quality management development, understand the needs of commissioners and the purchasing process and respond positively to audit and inspection regimes.
Helping Councils to refocus expenditure
IPC has produced a paper with the Think Local Act Personal partnership and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) designed to help local authorities explore how they might take a strategic view of their use of resources in progressing the transformation agenda set out in national policy. The work has been circulated to all ADASS Directors in England.
The paper is based around a hypothetical budget of £100 million for a social care department. It is designed to offer ideas about the allocation of resources and a practical approach to the strategic analysis and planning of future budgets, whilst at the same time addressing some of the re-shaping necessary to deliver the essentials of the ‘personalisation’ agenda.
Housing with Care course for providers due to begin in March 2012
Our Housing with Care course for managers and senior staff will run in March and June 2012. For more information and details about booking please see our training and qualifications page.
IPC has recently produced a paper for the Eastern region of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services which focuses on four key questions relevant to local health and social care communities:
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How might we assess the impact of changing demand?
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How might we begin to think about reducing demand for health and care services?
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Does prevention work at the health and social care interface?
- Can we develop an investment based approach to reducing demand?
The paper concludes with an outline investment model and worked example for considering an inter agency approach.
IPC launches 'Strategic Housing for Older People Resource Pack' at Extra Care Housing conference
A new resource pack developed by IPC and published by the Housing LIN and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services was launched at the prestigious Extra Care Housing conference in London on Thursday 8th December. Professor Andrew Kerslake from IPC introduced the new pack to delegates. More details here.
IPC supports national social care policy development
IPC is involved the development of two high profile national social care initiatives for the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in England and the Department of Health, helping to frame policy in the forthcoming White Paper and informing practice.
IPC Network Conference a great success
The IPC annual Conference was held in Birmingham and attended by delegates from our Network and Partner organisations. Participants explored the reality of facilitating and managing the social care market, particularly in relation to the impact of personal budgets and the need to achieve greater efficiencies.
One of IPC’s partner authorities, the London Borough of Greenwich, was announced as the winner at the 2011 HSJ Awards this week. For more about this see here
