What role will councils play in the social care system of the future? Councils can be the proactive curators and brokers of truly personalised care with five main functions. “What we don’t need is more efficient ways to get people in to the failing system.” This comment during a conversation with one local authority recently struck a chord with me. Lots of councils are currently updating their case management systems, either ditching old suppliers or taking the opportunity to renegotiate their contracts. But new case management systems just mean more efficient ways of handling the influx of demand on social care services that is predicted to increase once the Care Act comes into force. Instead of these transactional changes that only address the needs of the council, we need a conversation about the radically different role that local authorities should take in the new care landscape, and how councils could revolve around the needs of their citizens. Talk about the prevention agenda seems to be largely lip service, while genuinely new approaches are side-line or squeezed due to “budget pressures”. If you want change, you have to put the weight of the council’s resources behind the change you want to see, not keep pouring into the money pit that is “business as usual”. theguardian/social-care-network/2014/sep/08/councils-social-care-system-future
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 08:39:07 +0000
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