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Good Afternoon

I’m writing to let you know about the forthcoming Applying the Care Act – making legally literate decisions about personal budgets masterclass which I will be facilitating on Friday 9th March 2018 in London. The aim of this one day masterclass is for participants to improve their ability to make decisions about what is a sufficient budget to meet needs – that represents good outcomes for the individual and value for money, by understanding how local authorities are sometimes applying the Care Act 2014 in ways that can be considered as unsatisfactory, and may be unlawful.

With councils under pressure to drive down the cost of care packages, social workers can be placed in circumstances where application of the legal rules and professional judgement is compromised – as evidenced in recent High Court and Court of Appeal decisions and findings of maladministration by the Ombudsman. This masterclass will enable participants to consider what can be learned from these cases, including both successful and unsuccessful challenges to reductions to an individual’s care package, and to improve their ability to apply the Care Act and the statutory guidance in a legally literate way – by utilising the approach set out in The Social Worker’s Guide to the Care Act 2014.

Delegates will receive a copy of my book The Social Worker’s Guide to the Care Act 2014

Key Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the significance of decisions made in Davey v Oxfordshire and JF v Merton, in relation to reducing the cost of care packages
  • Consider recent Ombudsman findings on disputes about the amount of the personal budget (including those where the complaint was not upheld).
  • Explore the implications of the above for how social workers apply the Care Act to assessment, eligibility, care and support planning and reviews.
  • Review the mandate provided for professional judgement within the Care Act, the Regulations and the Care and Support Statutory Guidance.
  • Better understand the circumstances where a local authority can reduce/increase the cost of an individual’s care package and the how this can be achieved. Evaluate the extent to which local ‘funding panels’ apply the statutory guidance.
  • Reflect on what needs to be done to prevent disputes developing into complaints to the Ombudsman or judicial reviews
  • Reflect on complex and challenging cases in a multiagency forum

How to register:

To secure your place, please register using one of the following options:

1. Book your place online 
2. Download the conference brochure and booking form

I hope to see you there.

Regards

Peter Feldon

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Our services include personal care and support, home services, childcare including babysitting, crèche facilities and our own nanny agency, and respite and holiday care.

At SureCare we are flexible enough to consider any care related requirement you may have and which we haven’t already thought about ourselves!

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Fabulous and very well located modern basement office space available for letting in London Bridge SE1. The office benefits from being situated in a Prime Southbank spot, in a mews just off the very trendy Bermondsey Street located right next door to the new White Cube Gallery.

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Sure Care Rugby & North Warwickshire

F: 01788 297647

www.surecare.co.uk

Our experienced team allows loved ones to maintain their independence in their own home and busy parents to know  that their childcare arrangements are in safe hands.

Our services include personal care and support, home services, childcare including babysitting, crèche facilities and our own nanny agency, and respite and holiday care.

At SureCare we are flexible enough to consider any care related requirement you may have and which we haven’t already thought about ourselves!

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Conferences

Nearly 350,000 patients currently spend over three weeks in acute hospitals each year.”
NHS Improvement March 2019

Following the National Ambition to cut long hospital stays by 25% this conference focuses on improving patient flow, discharge arrangements and admission avoidance to reduce long stays in hospital.

Chaired by Dr Liz Deutsch, Consultant Nurse (Acute Medicine) and Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University Hospitals Birmingham and University of Birmingham.

This conference will enable you to:

  • Network with colleagues who are working to reduce long hospital stays
  • Reflect on national developments and learning
  • Learn from outstanding examples of changing culture and practice to improve patient flow
  • Improve the way you manage discharge planning to reduce overstaying older people
  • Learn from an organization that has achieved a 0% overstaying older people rate
  • Develop your skills in undertaking long stay patient reviews: Understanding the root cause of long stays in your service
  • Understand how you can improve the way you work to keep people out of hospital including looking at the role of the Virtual
    Hospital
  • Identify key strategies for implementing the SAFER Care Bundle and Red to Green
  • Ensure you are up to date with the latest evidence on discharge2assess and ensuring safety at discharge
  • Learn from trusts that have improved rates of same day discharge
  • Reduce Long Stays for Frail Older People
  • Self assess and reflect on your own practiceFor further information visit
    www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/reducing-long-hospital-stays

Follow the conference on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #ReducingHospitalStays
Feedback from delegates attending the last event on this topic:

“It was a perfect conference – no improvement, well organised”
“Amazing programme, very well explained changes/news about other trusts’ achievements, and new improvements from NHS England”
“Very informative and lots of ideas that could be adapted to my service”
“Very well structured and organised. Relevant topics for discussion – all speakers very passionate about patient centred care”
“All talks were brilliant, full of inspirational facts and updates”

Group rates:

A 15% discount is available to all but the first person in a booking. We can offer increased discount rates for bookings of 5 or more, contact kerry@hc-uk.org.uk.

Interested in Exhibiting at this event?
This conference includes an exhibition for delegates to hear about, discover and takeaway details of new products and services.

Email: carolyn@hc-uk.org.uk
or call Carolyn Goodbody on 01932 429933

Don’t miss this important opportunity to join in the discussion and personal development around promoting the needs of Children and Young People in Care.

Healthcare Conferences UK
www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk

The Strengths-based practice framework for professional practice was released in February 2019.
A Strengths-based practice is a social work theory that focuses on people’s strengths and goals rather than their problems. This conference focuses on implementing a Strengths-based approach, and applying the Strengths-based Based Practice Framework for Professional Practice in Adult Social Work.

“A strengths-based approach explores, in a collaborative way the entire individual’s abilities and their circumstances rather than making the deficit the focus of the intervention…. When using a strengths-based approach, risk is looked at as an enabler, not as a barrier.”
Strengths-based approach practice framework February 2019

This conference will enable you to:

  • Network with colleagues who are working to implement a strengths based approach to adults social work
  • Learn from outstanding practice in applying the Strengths-based Based Practice Framework for Professional Practice in Adult Social Work
  • Reflect on national developments and learning, and the lived experience
  • Understand the five quadrant model promoted as a set of practice triggers or prompts bought to action through knowledge, values, experiential learning, theories and skills
  • Develop your skills in Delivering a Strengths-based approach to Adult Safeguarding
  • Understand how you can improve the assessment process and the way you look at risk issues
  • Identify key strategies for quality assurance
  • Ensure your practice and interventions are proportionate through case study examples
  • Self assess and reflect on your own practice
  • Gain cpd accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidenceFor further information visit
    www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/strengths-based-social-work

Good Afternoon,

The Safeguarding Adults Summit 2019: Improving Adult Safeguarding Practice Decision Making, User Involvement & Outcomes is taking place on Monday 10th June 2019 at the De Vere West One Conference Centre, London. The conference, chaired by Fran Pearson – Chair, National Network for Chairs of Adult Safeguarding Boards & Independent Chair, Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board, London Borough of Newham/Luton, aims to bring together adult safeguarding leads to understand current issues and the national context, and to debate and discuss key issues and areas you are facing in practice in moving forward with ‘making safeguarding personal’ and a developing a strengths based approach to adult safeguarding.

The day includes an opening address by Kenny Gibson – Head of Adult Safeguarding, NHS England. Other speakers on the day include Moira Tombs – Associate, Encompassing Health, Prof Samantha Baron, Head of Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University & Co Author, Strengths-based approach practice framework, Department of Health and Social Care and Ruth Ingram – Co-Author, Adult Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse: A Guide to Support Practitioners and Manager & Safeguarding Adults Consultant
For the full programme and speaker line up visit the website: www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/adult-safeguarding-summit

What you will learn by attending…
• Network with colleagues who are working to improve adult safeguarding practice
• Understand the national context of your safeguarding practice
• Move towards full implementation of Making Safeguarding Personal
• Reflect on how you can develop and embed a strengths based approach to adult safeguarding
• Ensure the learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) is used to identify systemic risk issues and improve practice
• Learn from others to enable a user focused approach to adult safeguarding, including hearing from service users
• Monitor and improve service user led outcomes for safeguarding
• Learn from a different approach to safeguarding young adults
• Understand the legal context including implications of recent developments such as the move from DoLS to Liberty Protection Safeguards
• Improve your skills in decision making in adult safeguarding: understanding mental capacity
• Develop your skills in safeguarding investigation, undertaking a safeguarding enquiry and report writing
• Improve practice in multi-agency information sharing including GDPR in safeguarding
• Self assess and reflect on your own practice
• Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence
100% of delegates who attended our last conference on Adult Safeguarding would recommend the conference to a colleague

How to register:
To secure your place, please register using one of the following options:
1. Book your place online
2. Email jayne@hc-uk.org.uk
3. Download the conference brochure and booking form

GROUP DISCOUNTS: A discount of 15% will be applied to fees for any extra delegates. For bookings of 5 + delegates, email judi@hc-uk.org.uk as greater discounts are available

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