Adult Health & Wellbeing - existing products and useful resources

• Learning Disability Fair Pricing Tool - A spreadsheet-based tool has been developed to help social workers cost residential care packages for working age adults with learning disabilities or mental health disorders.
  The Fair Pricing Tool and Information Sheets and Frequently Asked Questions guides have been developed to address common queries can be downloaded from the website.

  For further information on the Fair Pricing Tool contact the Pricing Tools Project Manager vanessa.jenns@gloucestershire.gov.uk
  

• Provider & Placements Database - The Provider and Placements Database has been developed to assist partnership working between authorities and providers. It holds information about providers in the south west that can be searched by social workers looking for vacancies and also a record of service users placed by authorities. Over 800 providers are registered on the database.
  All providers of residential services for adults with learning disabilities or mental health disorders in the south west region are eligible to register. Any provider wishing to register to be on the database should contact either the Helpdesk or the Pricing Tools Project Manager vanessa.jenns@gloucestershire.gov.uk
  There is no charge to register and the process is quick and easy.
  More information can be found on the CSR04 Adult Learning Disabilities Page linked above.
  Helpdesk Contact Details - Due to limited funding we cannot provide a telephone helpdesk that is always manned during office hours, however we will endeavour to answer your queries as quickly as possible. helpdesk@swaldaccommodation.org

• Research project: Critical factors in care planning for people with learning disabilities, and their financial implications:- This study aimed to explore the factors which are associated with different outcomes of care planning for people with learning disabilities. In particular, it explored the differences for those going into residential care, and those who had a supported living placement, or some other community-based option.
  A Job Coaching project to support students into sustained employment is yet to be completed. Details will be available from the website in due course.
  More information can be found on the CSR04 Adult Learning Disabilities Page linked above.

• Learning Disability: Strategic Commissioning Framework - Framework offers advice, examples of best practice and guidance, and is intended for commissioners within both local authorities and PCTs. The workbook defines the different levels of commissioning and explores self-directed support and strategic commissioning.
  More information can be found on the CSR04 Adult Learning Disabilities Page linked above.

• Learning Disability: Commissioning Strategy Pilots:- Several authorities undertook pilots with support from IPC to help them model some of the commissioning approaches outlined in the regional guidance. The following reports are available to download from the website and can be found on the CSR04 Adult Learning Disabilities Page linked above..
  • Plymouth Pilot Project: Effective Transition Planning
  • Devon Pilot Project: Learning Disability Partnership Arrangements
  • Ex-Avon Group Pilot Project: A Method for Implementing Outcome Based Commissioning & Contracting (Project 7)
    

• ADASS Commissioning Project group CSR04 Briefing Papers - These Briefing papers were produced by the Project Group supported by The Institute of Public Care, part of Oxford Brookes University. They provide an overview of national policy and consider the key issues facing commissioners. In addition there are complementary discussion points from members of the group and a range of case studies and practical examples.
• Commissioning & Personalisation: Briefing Paper
• Commissioning to promote independence and well-being for older people: Briefing Paper
• What works in joint Strategic Needs Assessment: Briefing Paper

• Adult Learning Disability Services Case Studies - A selection of case studies related to the Adult Service Learning Disability programme

• CSED : CSED, the Care Services Efficiency Delivery is part of the Department of Health. CSED helps councils to identify and develop more efficient ways of delivering of adult social care. Increasingly, the programme is focused on supporting the transformation of adult social care, set out in Putting People First, to help bring about sustainable transformation that provides maximum benefit to service users.
  

  TRACS - Tool for Rapid Analysis of Care Services
  The goal of CSED's TRACS is to help councils achieve potentially substantial efficiencies via accelerating the time taken to collate, analyse and quantify opportunities within in-house and external social care services.
  Councils have expressed, to a lesser or greater extent, the following issues when embarking on either redesigning the ‘buying' process or on information based negotiation with providers:
  • Difficulty in obtaining information
  • Information not structured in the right way
  • The time taken to get the data
  • Data and systems which do not lend themselves to ‘what-if' option appraisal
  • Shortage of skills to convert numbers into something which paints a picture
  TRACS has been designed to address this type of issue quickly (within 2 days instead of many months)
  

  What is TRACS? Very simply, TRACS consists of two parts:
  A data warehouse product for storing, analysing and presenting social care data.
  Consultancy support to make use of the product and support councils in the identification of opportunities.
  

  What data does TRACS use? There are two core sets of data which the tool relies on:
  A download of agreements (or ‘orders') from the care management system
  Agreed rates for provider supplied services
  With relatively simple additions to a generated skeleton set of look-up tables, it is possible to analyse the provided data in much richer ways, e.g:
  By Post-sector / zoning information
  By Categorisation of client types
  By Classification of services
  By team / individual responsible for placing the order
  - other analysis options are available
  

  How does TRACS work? The tool works by:
  Interpreting and re-structuring raw data from a care management system into a format suitable for analysis
  Simulating the cost of each package over time, based on provided pricing tables, and comparing this with actual costs when available
  Providing tools to rapidly perform and store complex what-ifs involving price changes, price table substitution, service restructuring, and volume changes
  Allowing the user to graphically present and export the results in a variety of ways using filters, grouping and simple calculations
  

  The Benefits of TRACS: TRACS is designed to complement existing spend analysis tools by providing functionality to rapidly simulate different scenarios:
  At its simplest level TRACS can be used to very quickly analyse tenders
  TRACS also goes much further - it can be used to model and evaluate complete price restructuring (e.g. rationalising Supporting People contracts with Older People contracts)
  Simulation and analysis is not limited to prices - volumes and costs can also be analysed by any combination of provider, type of package, service
  category, client characteristic, geographical zone, etc thus lending itself to brokerage restructuring
  Trends over time can also be simulated (e.g. modelling growth in learning disability support, the impact of individual budgets, and so on)
  To access more information on TRACS and access the tool itself follow link to CSED website http://www.csed.csip.org.uk/solutions/solutions/better-buying/tracs--tool-for-rapid-analysis-of-care-services.html
  

  POPPI [Projecting Older People Population Information System]
  This view-only system has been developed by the Institute of Public Care (IPC) for CSED. It is for use by local authority planners and commissioners of social care provision in England. It is a programme designed to help explore the possible impact that demography and certain conditions may have on populations aged 65 and over.
  For further details see CSED's guide: Getting started with POPPI v2.3.PDF.go to the POPPI website via the following link http://www.poppi.org.uk/
  Provides population data by age band, gender, ethnic group, religion, tenure, transport, living with no central heating, and by state pension for English local authorities. Calculations are applied to population figures to estimate projected numbers of older people by; those living alone, living in care home, receiving unpaid care, their ability to carry out domestic tasks and self care.
  Prevalence rates from research have been used to estimate the impact of; limiting long term illness, depression, severe depression, dementia, heart attack, stroke, bronchitis\emphysema, falls, continence, visual impairment, mobility and obesity.
  Finally, nationally available performance data on; helped to live at home, intensive home care, community based services, supported residents in care homes, admissions to permanent residential and nursing care, and carers receiving services are applied to the projected population figures.
  For information on adults aged 18-64, go to www.pansi.org.uk

  
  Further Project Information

• CSR07 Adult Health & Wellbeing Programme - An outline of the Programme, objectives and Project Areas is given in the Delivery Plan.
  
• CSR04 Adult Learning Disability Programme - Details of the programme and associated reports and resources from this programme can be found in the members area - Note: This area is restricted and you will need a Username and Password, please contact Helen Maunder (details at the bottom of this page) for more information.
  
• Networking
  • The South West Learning Disability Commissioning Forum - This Forum is open to LD Commissioning Managers in Local Authorities, for Learning Disability Leads in PCTs and to other interested parties. Contact Helen Maunder at h.maunder@dorsetcc.gov.uk
  • Councillors Network - Contact IDeA: Stephen.Fletcher@idea.gov.uk
    
• Adult Social Care Events - To find out more about events by the SW RIEP go to http://www.southwestiep.gov.uk/Events

  Visit the following websites to see other Organisations Events

  • CSIP http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/events/events.html
  • Social Care Institute for Excellence http://www.scie.org.uk
  • SCIE social care leadership course 2008
    • SCIE social care leadership course flyer
    • SCIE social care leadership course application form
    • SCIE equal opportunities policy

Contact Helen Maunder on 07796 941643 or h.maunder@dorsetcc.gov.uk for any further information regarding the Adult Health & Wellbeing Programme, or for access to the members area.