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The twin challenges of quality and funding loom large over the adult social care sector. The success of the personalisation agenda in future will depend upon answering some even more fundamental questions about the nature of future supply and demand for public services.
As Alex Fox shows in this thoughtful paper authored for 2020 Public Services Hub, the personalisation agenda encourages innovation, offering the potential to create new markets around localised and individual needs, to focus fiscal resources directly and discretely, and to enable small groups of individuals to 'positively disrupt' a complex and opaque system. These are all developments to be welcomed.
The Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF) was first launched on 31 March 2011, following consultation on a broader, more transparent and outcome focused approach to presenting information on what adult social care has achieved.
This new framework document has been updated for 2012-13. All proposals for outcome measures have been agreed between the Department of Health, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Local Government Association.
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has published its seventy-eighth report of the session, regarding the Care Quality Commission and regulating the quality and safety of health and adult social care.
A reminder to please sign Age UK’s petition to demonstrate to the Government that the time to reform the adult social care system is now.
Find out more about our Care in Crisis campaign, and the petition.
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