Professor Martin Green OBE Chief Executive ECCA What is the future for Social Care ? North West Care Show - 17 th April 2013

English Community Care Association Largest representative body in the care sector Over 6,200 care services 0.5 million service users Working on behalf of small, medium and large providers Charities/corporates/independents

The Need for Change Fragmented services Cuts to health and social care Dependency based system Cliff edge, means-tested funding Variable services Poor commissioning for budgets not need Lack of consumer choice

A new vision for care and support From crisis to wellbeing From state to individual needs From dependency to independence From receiver to contributor From disability to re-ablement From separation to integration From ignorant to informed consumer From isolation to community action

Opportunities and Challenges Developing the market: integration of housing, health and social care Creative approaches: holding values and developing services Mixed business models Partnerships: charity/private/social enterprise Diversification/responding to need Development of sub-acute services Hubs of expertise and involvement Efficiencies and outcomes

The system must respond by: Developing a long term funding system Building a system on quality not cost Integrating health and social care Developing outcome measures Offer direct payments for all services Understand the true costs of care Value and reward quality Reduce bureaucracy Develop and pay the workforce

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