Adult Social Care

Tuesday 20th March 2012, Guoman Charing Cross Hotel - London, 08:30 - 16:05

The Future Outlook for Adult Social Care Services

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Overview

Adult Social Care is undergoing reform to the way that services are designed and delivered. It is vital that the social care system provides care equally for all, while enabling people to retain their independence, control and dignity.

On 15 September 2011, the government launched Caring for our Future: Shared Ambitions for Care and Support - an engagement with service users, carers, local councils, care providers and the voluntary sector about the priorities for improving care and support. The consultation outlines key areas that will have the greatest potential to make improvements to the care and support system. These include workforce development, personalisation and choice, integration of services, prevention and early intervention, and funding. A subsequent Social Care Reform White Paper is expected to be published in April 2012.

The Social Care Reform paper will build on A Vision for Adult Social Care: Capable Communities and Active Citizens, published November 2010, which set out the government’s principles for a modern system of care and support. Furthermore, the Law Commission report on Adult Social Care, published May 2011, recommended the creation of a new national system setting out the basic support that all local authorities must offer. The Caring for Our Future consultation will also outline reforms for the way people pay for care and support, building on the Commission on Funding of Care and Support report, published in July 2011.

The government’s spending review provided the social care system with a stable financial base over the next four years. It provides additional funding of £2 billion by 2014/15: £1 billion through the NHS and £1 billion in grant funding to local government, allowing the social care system to be reformed with a focus on local priorities and requirements. Government spending on adult social care has reached £14.5 billion per annum with approximately half going on caring for older people. Figures produced by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility predict that spending on long term care is expected to increase by around 40 per cent, from 1.2 per cent to 1.7 per cent of gross domestic product.

To promote changes to adult social care provision, the government will support providers through their Partnership Agreement Think Local, Act Personal; the sector’s commitment to personalisation and community-based support.

Agenda

This forum will provide delegates with a unique and detailed analysis of the government's proposed changes, and on the impact of current and forthcoming reforms to adult social care.

08:30	Registration and Coffee
09:15	Chair’s Welcome Address Caroline Abrahams, Director of External Affairs, Age UK (CONFIRMED)
09:25	Opening Keynote: The Changing Role of Regulation: Improving Outcomes in Adult Social Care The changing role of the CQC in regulating adult social care services Providing incentives for greater integration of health and adult social care services to achieve better outcomes Providing care that meets service user’s individuals needs Achieving outcomes through joined-up care Monitoring of compliance with Essential Standards of Quality and Safety Future of inspection programmes Ensuring fair and equal access for all Funding for inspections Dame Jo Williams, Chair, Care Quality Commission (CONFIRMED)
09:45	Reforming the Social Care Workforce - Delivering the Highest Quality Standards of Care Caring for Our Future – priorities for reforming adult social care Approaches to shaping and empowering frontline care How to meet a rise in demand for social care and the diverse needs of service users Overcoming the resource challenge: meeting rising demands and expectations Developing personalisation within care and budgets – orientating services around the individual Implications for Health and Wellbeing boards Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy What will be the impact of health and social care’s closer relationship? Jo Moriarty, Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London (CONFIRMED)
10:05	Question and Answer Session
10:25	Creating a New Legal Framework for Delivering Adult Social Care The Law Commission's final report on adult social care - implications for frontline social care services Putting the individual’s wellbeing at the heart of decision-making, using new statutory principles Giving carers new legal rights to services Placing duties on councils and the NHS to work together Building a single, streamlined assessment and eligibility framework Protecting service users from abuse and neglect with a new legal framework, and giving adult safeguarding boards a statutory footing Frances Patterson, Public Law Commissioner for England and Wales, Law Commission (CONFIRMED)
10:45	Question and Answer Session
11:05	Coffee and Networking
11:25	Beyond Dilnot: The Funding for Funding Care and Support Delivering a fair, affordable and sustainable funding system for social care in England What impact will revised funding have on service users, local authorities and home, nursing home and community‐based care? How will the £2 billion of extra funding impact on the working practices of local government and the NHS? Changing models of commissioning Community budgets Making budgeted savings a reality Rt Hon the Lord Warner, Commissioner, Commission on Funding of Care and Support (CONFIRMED)
11:45	Safeguarding Vulnerable Older People Understanding the hidden nature of elder abuse Understanding older people's experience of safeguarding Principles of good safeguarding, and empowerment Outcomes of safeguarding Gary Fitzgerald, Chief Executive, Action on Elder Abuse (CONFIRMED)
12:05	Special Keynote: Caring for Our Future - The Government’s Vision for Reforming Adult Social Care Services Caring for Our Future: Shared ambitions for Care and Support - building a new vision for adult social care How does social care fit with a reformed NHS? Transforming care and support services that are responsive to local needs Moving health and social care to social enterprises – allowing frontline staff to deliver services that are tailored to the needs of their community Delivering an improved health and social care system in partnership with voluntary organisations Beyond Dilnot: Future funding for adult social care and ensuring that it is sustainable in the long-term David Behan, Director General for Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships, Department of Health (CONFIRMED)
12:25	Question and Answer Session
12:45	Lunch and Networking
13:45	Commissioning Social Care Services - Connecting with the Needs and Aspirations of Users and Carers Delivering joint and integrated service delivery across health and adult social care Overcoming the challenges to commissioning of social care services in light of NHS structural reforms and funding restrictions Partnership working between service users, local authorities and NHS bodies to commission local services Ensuring that local needs are met in a cost effective and efficient manner Overcoming barriers to integration Growing private sector involvement in care homes – challenges and opportunities The impact of changes to regulation for social care providers Kim Haworth, Area Commissioning Manager - Central Lancashire, Lancashire County Council (CONFIRMED)
14:05	Personalising Safeguarding Services - Balancing Individual Rights and Protection within Care The impact of personalisation on vulnerable adults receiving social care Evidence-based practice for personalisation, risk enablement and self-directed support How can personal budgets empower people to break free from abusive treatment? Balancing safeguarding while maintaining individual choice Engaging with vulnerable adults to develop safeguarding goals and practice? Ivan Molyneux, Adult Safeguarding and Quality Manager, Cambridgeshire County Council (CONFIRMED)
14:25	Question and Answer Session
14:45	Coffee and Networking
15:05	Independent Living: The Business of Innovation and the Application of Technologies The Assisted Living Innovation Platform- driving innovation for population ageing. The application of technologies to promote, support and sustain independent lifestyles, health and care. Independence Matters - Design and Technology Improving Quality of Life Delivering Assisted Living at Scale (dallas) Future opportunities for funding and innovation Jackie Marshall-Cyrus, Lead Specialist– Assisted Living Innovation Platform, Technology Strategy Board (CONFIRMED)
15:25	Closing Keynote: Designing and Evaluating High Quality Community Led Care Responding to the current and forthcoming reforms, legislation and strategy Think Local, Act Personal – personalisation partnerships Ensuring that dignity is provided in hospitals, care homes, and community care Outcomes framework for adult social care The future of Adult Social Work, Social Work Pilots and pioneer projects – best-practice and lessons learnt Robert Templeton, Head of Transforming Adult Social Care, Social Care Institute for Excellence (CONFIRMED)
15:45	Question and Answer Session
16:05	Chair's Summary and Close

*programme subject to change without notice

Audience

Delegates attending this forum will include PCT's, NHS, health authorities, central and local government, education, social care and business sectors specifically, commissioning directors, heads of estate, heads of innovation and development, social care directors, communication and marketing directors, technical directors, project directors, heads of PCT’s, directors of public health, HR managers, health and wellbeing mangers, chief nurses and occupational health managers.