Residents and organisations across Shropshire are being asked to share their views on a consultation which looks at reviewing the cost of residential and nursing beds in the county.
The public consultation, launched by Shropshire Council on 18 March 2019, runs until Friday 26 April 2019. The aim of the consultation is to look at ways to develop a ‘fairer’ cost for residential and nursing beds.
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Shortlisted projects include Adult Safeguarding Enquiry cards, Integrated Community Services Team, Social Prescribing, Broseley Project for work using consumer smart technology to support health and social care needs of vulnerable people, night time carer support.
People interested in making a real difference to the lives of Shropshire’s children are being encouraged to consider a career as a social worker – by some of those who already do the job in the county.
The call comes as applications open for a fast-track training programme that could see successful applicants start a career as a children’s social worker in just 14 months.
Health inspectors say there has been a “significant improvement” in how public sector organisations work together to provide services for older people who need care in Stoke-on-Trent.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has revisited the city to look at how well older people – and specifically those over 65 – can move through the health and social care system following an initial inspection in September 2017.
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Professor Steve Field, Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care, said: “Our review of health and social care services in the county found that older people had varied experiences of health and social care services. There were variations in what was available to them depending on where they lived, which meant that people’s experiences of care and the support they received were inconsistent.
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The Integrated Community Services (ICS) team, jointly run by Shropshire Council and Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, were named the winner of the Team of the Year, Adult Services award at the national event which took place last week (Friday 30 November 2018) in London.
Shropshire Council has today been chosen to take forward a project to develop a data visualisation tool to allow care homes and home care organisations identify key areas of need.
The announcement was made by the Minister for Care Caroline Dinenage at the National Children and Adult Social Services’ Conference today in Manchester.
The new strategy focuses on helping people to stay independent wherever possible, connecting people to the wealth of informal support that is available across Shropshire before looking to formal care services.
The three new areas we have now been asked to review and will report on individually by December are:
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We have also been asked to choose three local system areas, from those that we carried out in our programme of work in 2017/18, to follow up on progress made.
The three follow-up areas are:
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York
Oxfordshire
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A video featuring some of Shropshire Council’s children’s social workers explaining what they enjoy most about their jobs is being used to help attract new recruits to the team.
A further £1.1m is to be invested in recruiting more children’s social workers to help manage caseloads in the county.
Staffordshire County Council’s Cabinet agreed the funding, despite the wider financial challenges facing the council, after recognising the increasing pressures on children’s services.
The county council will now look to launch a recruitment campaign to take on at least a further 20 specialist social workers to help support the county’s most vulnerable children.
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Shropshire Council will be using the funding to further explore its ‘Redesign and Empower the Care and Provider market’ (RECap) project.
One of the biggest challenges facing the social care system today is care demand outstripping the markets ability to supply placements at a price and quality that is sustainable. The current social care model often relies on expensive care packagers rather than looking at how we can keep people living productive and fulfilling lives closer to home, and within the communities they live in.
As the county council moves to becoming self-financing, due to the loss of Government grants, Leader Philip Atkins said the authority was committed to growing Staffordshire’s economy, supporting the creation of more a skilled workforce and promoting the development of housing needs to make the council even more self-sufficient.