Six Steps to Managing Demand in Adult Social Care: a performance management approach - Full report

This report from IPC highlights how taking a performance management approach can help councils deliver outcomes and better managge demand.

The paper, co-authored by Visiting Professor John Bolton and IPC Assistant Director Philip Provenzano, provides a helpful model for measuring service delivery and identifies six critical steps for managing demand in social care, a range of strategic objectives as well as suggested performance indicators and targets. It builds on IPC's earlier work looking at how councils deliver outcomes and manage demand, suggesting that improving performance management can assist in delivering change.

Councils rarely have a clear strategy on managing demand for social care services and, where they do, often fail to properly analyse data to understand the impact of that strategy. The authors draw on IPC's extensive experience over nearly 30 years supporting organisational development in local authorities across the UK.

The executive summary can be found here.