we help to improve social care standards Feb 2014 The Care Act & Cavendish Review

Care Act – Care and support Clause No.Topic 1-7General responsibilities of local authorities 8-13 Meeting needs for care and support 14-17Charging and assessing financial resources Duties and powers to meet needs Next steps after assessment 34-36Deferred payment agreements Moving between areas 42-47Safeguarding adults from risk of abuse or neglect Market failure and oversight 58-66Transition for children to adult care and support Independent advocacy support 69-79Other provisions

Care Act– Care standards Clause No.Topic 80-84Quality of services 85-87Care Quality Commission 88-89Independence of the Care Quality Commission 90 Performance ratings False or misleading information 94Regulated activities

Care Act milestones Key requirementsTiming Duties on prevention and wellbeingFrom April 2015 Duties on information and advice (including advice on paying for care) Duty on market shaping Assessments (including carers’ assessments) National minimum threshold for eligibility Personal budgets and care and support plans Safeguarding Universal deferred payment agreements Extended means testFrom April 2016 Care accounts Capped charging system

Further information & resources  The Care Act: /0168/14168.pdf  Explanatory notes:  19 factsheets and a glossary to accompany the Bill:  Learning and development programme & Capacity Planning Act/Care-Bill.aspx Act/Care-Bill.aspx

Learning and development plan  Major implications for the learning and development needs of the adult social care workforce  Development of a learning and development programme to address the changes  Learning and development needs matrix  Suite of learning resources providing national consistency with flexibility for local use  Support for and quality assurance of potential learning providers and in-house trainers

Cavendish Review - An Independent Review into Healthcare Assistants and Support Workers in the NHS and social care settings Recommendations presented under….  Recruitment, Training and Education  Making Caring a Career  Getting the Best out of People  Leadership, Supervision and Support  Time to Care

Recruitment, Training & Education “Certificate of Fundamental Care” - build on work done on minimum training standards. “Higher Certificate of Fundamental Care” - more advanced competences, developed & agreed by employers. Rigorous system of quality assurance for training. Employers should be supported to test values, attitudes and aptitude for caring at recruitment

Making Caring a Career New bridging programmes into pre-registration nursing and other health degrees Caring experience a prerequisite to starting a nursing degree, and review the contribution of vocational experience towards degrees Work with employers to set out a robust career development framework for health and social care support staff, linked to the simplified job roles and core competences.

Getting the Best out of People: Leadership, Supervision and Support Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care for advice on how employers can be more effective in managing the dismissal of unsatisfactory staff Skills for Health should refine its proposed code of conduct for staff, and the Department of Health must review the progress of the social care commitment:social care commitment

The Social Care Commitment  7 employer and 7 employee statements to demonstrate that people are supported by skilled staff recommitment/

I Care…Ambassador service Setting up and running an An online resource to support the set up and running of an I Care… Ambassador service is available at: It provides key information, useful tips, checklists and case studies to support the following:

Value-Based Recruitment  Online tool and resources including example job adverts and interview questions and a candidate personality profiling test recruitment-toolkit  A Question of Care -

Piloting the Care Certificate Health Education England, Skills for Care, and Skills for Health, have worked together to develop the following draft Care Certificate documents:  Technical document Technical document  Assessor document Assessor document  Healthcare Support Worker and Adult Social Care Worker document (learner document) Healthcare Support Worker and Adult Social Care Worker document (learner document)

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