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Stay up to date with our latest news in the columns we regularly write for Care Home Professional (CHP) and Care Management Matters (CMM). These pieces give our senior team the opportunity to share their thoughts and ambitions and also spotlight the good practice we see.
In our latest CHP column, Kate Terroni, Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Integrated Care and Interim Chief Operating Officer, brings you up to speed on our transformation programme and talks about our ambitions to understand the market for autistic people and people with a learning disability.
In our latest CMM column, Mary Cridge, Director of Adult Social Care, shares some fantastic practice and discusses the changes we made to support winter pressures and how this could help capacity capacity across England.
Earlier this month we published three new adult social care medicines best practice guides. These cover:
Each guide looks at best practice in managing and recording medicines and can be downloaded from our website using the links above.
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) has issued a new guide on good record keeping to help care providers learn from the complaints it upholds.
Poor record keeping is a common problem they find when people raise a complaint. The guide focuses on a number of case studies highlighting the common issues the LGSCO sees, and also includes good practice tips to help you avoid the problems from occurring in your services.
It also sets out their approach to investigating complaints on this matter, including information on electronic record keeping, and references other regulatory bodies’ guides to meeting the requirements on record keeping.
At the end of January, more than 50% of CQC regulated care providers were signed up to an Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) account with Skills for Care.
The information you provide on ASC-WDS is used to share insight on sector and workforce issues with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and other government bodies. This helps to update decision makers as they plan, fund, and monitor the sector.
An account provides a place to manage your staff training records and provides access to funding for staff training. The benchmarking feature can support workforce planning, as you can compare your workforce metrics with similar providers in your area.
You can also access the Skills for Care Benefits Bundle which includes a range of discounts and special offers on products from Skills for Care and other endorsed learning providers.
 Skills for Care has published a new learning framework for working with LGBTQ+ people in later life. It aims to provide a base for identifying the insights, knowledge, understanding and skills that the social care workforce needs to help work affirmatively, inclusively and effectively with individuals from gender and sexually diverse communities.
The framework is intended to be used by social care employers, employees, training providers, regulators, commissioners, policy makers and others. It will help build their own knowledge of LGBTQ+ issues, support colleagues’ understanding, and to create learning programmes which will allow teams to better support LGBTQ+ people in later life.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), in collaboration with the Care Provider Alliance (CPA), is surveying the products and services used in the sector and how critical they are to delivering care services. As cyber attacks on businesses across all sectors are ever-present, both DHSC and the CPA recognise that if one of your suppliers is affected, it could have a serious impact on the people you care for, your staff, and your business.
To better understand and engage with the supply chain, DHSC and CPA need to know the types of service you use. Using your responses to this short survey, research will build a picture, helping them to help you.
The survey is live until 10th March 2023, and will take around 10 minutes. Respondents to the survey will also receive an insights report after the end of the project.
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