Key tools to get you ready

for the new Care Act

Deborah Limb

Jill Thorburn

Meet Deborah Limb

Deborah and her team work

with customers every day to

help them deliver great

learning that drives

performance improvement in

their organisations.

Meet Jill Thorburn

Leading Subject Matter Expert

on Learning Pool’s

Social Care Subscription

• Built using responsive design

• Customisable in the content builder

• Free to existing Social Care

subscribers

Why is Care Act training from Learning Pool different?

Why has the Care Act been introduced?

• Response to Francis Inquiry & Mid Staffordshire events

• Increase transparency and openness

• Drive up the quality of care

• Much more understandable

What does the Care Act place emphasis on?

• preventing dependency

• promoting independence

• integration of services and between health and social

care

• building the capacity of communities to care for themselves

Vision of the Care Act

• the prevention disability and the maintenance of independence

• the importance of choice, control and dignity

• enabling those who use social care services to realise their potential and to participate in society on the same basis as every other citizen

• for individuals receiving support the right to live a fulfilling life

Over a period of time with the

majority of changes taking

place this April, with the

reform of funding taking effect

from April 2016

Implementation

of the

Care Act

The Care Act is broken down into 5 parts (or chapters) plus 8

schedules.

The Parts of the Act are:

Part 1 (Clauses 1 - 80): Care and Support

Part 2 (Clauses 81 - 95): Care Standards

Part 3 (Clauses 96 – 120): Health

Part 4 (Clauses 121 – 122): Health and Social Care

Part 5 (Clauses 123 – 129): General

• Take on new functions

• Embed the changes within

their teams

• Duties come into effect in

two changes

What’s the

Impact on Local

Authorities?

The first Learning Pool course covers

• The origins of the Care Act

• The purpose of the Act

• Fundamental changes

And much more….

The second Learning Pool course covers

• Assessing individuals &

carers

• Eligible needs and how

these are assessed

• Care planning

And much more….

What are the implications for local authorities and Social Care

professionals?

• Personal budgets

• Carers rights

• Minimum eligibility criteria

• New assessment framework

• Prevention agenda

• Provide info to everyone in their area

• Adult safeguarding placed on a statutory footing

• Bring about more choice

• Funding reforms

The Act provides for parents and other carers of disabled children

approaching adulthood to be assessed for support from adult social care too.

What are the challenges faced by local authorities and others in

implementing the Care Act?

• Various existing Acts will be replaced by the Care Act 2014

• New general duty for local to ‘promote of individual wellbeing’

• Expect a rise in demand for assessments

• Change of culture

The provision of care

and support must be

a person centred and

a user led activity

Numbers of local

authorities are

linking up together to

share practice and

knowledge

Learning Pool are producing 14 modules to replace Common Induction Standards and National Minimum

Training Standards.

Care Certificate content

Why has the Care Certificate been introduced now?

The Care Certificate should help to ensure that the practitioners have the required values, behaviours,

competences and skills to provide high quality, compassionate care.

It will be introduced in March 2015.

The Care

Certificate

Standards

14 modules including :

• Understand Your Role

• Your Personal Development

• Duty of Care

• Equality and Diversity

What are the implications for the rest of our Social Care content?

• Work taking place to ensure that all the adult social care courses are fully up to date following the implementation of the Act

• We currently have 60 courses in our social care suite

• All of these courses will have been reviewed and updated by the first of April

Thank you!

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