Publications

Date: February 2010
Type: Report, case studies

This report, prepared for the Housing Learning and Improvement Network by the Institute of Public Care, examines the best ways for commissioners and providers of extra care housing (ECH) to identify and meet the needs of minority groups of older…

Date: February 2010
Type: Discussion paper

This paper advocates a model for targeting health and social care provision in older old age called `Turnaround`. Turnaround is advocated in the context of older population changes which make it imperative that authorities limit the need for high cost…

Date: February 2010
Type: Report, case studies

This report, prepared by the Institute of Public Care for the Housing Learning and Improvement Network, examines how the multiple agencies involved in the commissioning and delivery of extra care housing (ECH) for older people can most effectively work together…

Date: January 2010
Type: Report

This paper describes a short study carried out by IPC with a medium-sized, London-based charity providing support services to vulnerable children, young people and their families. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the emerging commissioning…

Date: January 2010
Type: Report, literature review, case studies

This report aims to support service commissioners who are looking to develop integrated care services. It re-enforces the benefits of integration, noting the most recent drivers and the principles on which changes should be based.

Date: July 2009
Type: Paper

Learning disability (LD) represents local authorities` second highest level of social care expenditure yet the amount of predictive information available to help care commissioners plan appropriate services is very limited. This research paper presenting the results of a DH funded…

Date: June 2009
Type: Briefing paper

This annotated bibliography offers a guide to some of the key texts concerning market facilitation in social care. It is a companion document to the series of papers developed by IPC on market facilitation, originally funded by the Care Services…

Date: June 2009
Type: Briefing paper

This paper brings together the views of commissioners and providers of social care on the strengths and weakness of their existing relationships, constructive ways in which those relationships can be realigned, and the implications of a transition in local authorities`…

Date: June 2009
Type: Briefing paper

This paper examines the background to the complex relationships between commissioners, users and providers of residential and domiciliary social care, to establish the context in which further development or ‘facilitation’ of the social care market will take place.

Date: June 2009
Type: Briefing paper

This paper is about tendering and contractual arrangements where the local authority is purchasing social care on behalf of individuals. Recognising that this is a more limited role in an era of individual budgets and direct payments, it identifies the…

Date: June 2009
Type: Report, case studies

This report evaluates the Tameside Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPP) programme. It finds evidence of a positive impact on the quality of life and well-being of older people, and a shift away from higher intensity, more costly services.

Date: June 2009
Type: Briefing paper

This paper sets out what local authorities and PCTs need to do to make the transition from a largely responsive role as purchasers of social care services to more far-sighted, proactive market facilitators, in the context of the drive to…