Decision Maker: Assistant Director Adult Social Care and Safeguarding.
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Business Case for the Transformation of
Adult Social Care identified that Learning Disability services
should embed a person centred, strengths based approach to
assessment and support - promoting independence and personalised
care whilst achieving value for money. It also recognised that the
number and cost of care packages should be reduced in order to make
savings using a strengths based assessment and utilise Care Act
guidance to determine assessed, eligible unmet need. Accordingly a
team of specialised social workers was established to review all
those clients in receipt of a high-cost placement or package of
care in order to focus on supporting individuals to have better
quality of life, quality of support and cost of care.
To request the extension of agency contrats
for a period of 3 months for the Working Age Adults review team,
which consists of 1 Advanced Practitioner and 3 Social Workers to
allow the recruitment of fixted term contracted staff for the
duration of the project.
Consideration has been given to managing this
work within the existing staff structures and resources. However,
it is not possible to achieve the additional work these types of
reviews command within current resources. Consequently this
extension is required for a further 3 month period to 30 September
2017, in order to allow the recruitment of staff on a fixed-term
contract basis to cover the duration of the rest of the
project.
Publication date: 12/07/2018
Date of decision: 05/09/2017
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