Quality
More work needs to be done across the social care sector to improve the quality of care services.
TLAP's role in this, via the workings of the Quality Forum, is to help clarify which organisations are involved in driving quality, what they are doing and what this means for people who use services, carers and professionals.
Another function of the Quality Forum it to develop tools to support organisations to understand and engage with the quality landscape.
Gathering the Evidence: Making Personal Budgets Work for All
This report, published today, sets out a direction for improving the evidence base for personal budgets. It is a response to the National Audit Office’s 2016 report, which drew attention to the lack of a firm evidence base for understanding the impact of personal budgets. Personal budgets need to work for all so that we can re-focus our concentration on creating good lives for people, not just good services for the system.
Quality Initiatives Map
A map to help providers of adult social care navigate the complex quality system.
Key reports
Driving up Quality in Adult Social Care: Quality Assurance briefings
These briefings provide a framework to promote and support quality assurance and improvement in adult social care
The Duty of Candour - an Adult Social Care Perspective
If you are a health care provider registered with Care Quality Provision, you will be legally obliged to disclose failures in health care provision from October 2014.
TLAP published The Duty of Candour - an Adult Social Care Perspective, which outlines the social care sectors' views on this obligation and the harm threshold.
Recent reports
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Reflections from the 'frontline' (opens new window)
Social workers' experiences of post-qualifying child care training and their current work practices in the new children's services.
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The Demos Commission on Residential Care (opens new window)
The Commission was formed in July 2013 to explore the future of residential care in its broadest sense - from care homes to extra care villages and supported living, for older and disabled people.
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John Kennedy's Care Home Inquiry (opens new window)
The final report of a personal inquiry into the crisis in UK care homes for older people.
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The Kingsmill Review: Taking Care (opens new window)
An independent report into working conditions in the Care Sector.
Other Quality resources
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Skills for Care - The Social Care Commitment (opens new window)
The sector's promise to provide safe, high quality services.
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National Collaborating Centre for Social Care Standards (opens new window)
Standards developed using NICE methods and intended for use with current frameworks and regulation to drive quality in adult social care.