Transforming care

Tameside commissioned SCIE to:

• review emerging proposals for the transformation of adult social care and assess them against national good practice
• conduct cost-benefit analysis of projects to look at their potential return on investment and cost avoidance to the health and care system
• facilitate workshops with staff and service users to develop recommendations

Tameside is seeking to transform its adult social care services by investing in a number of innovative projects which aim to help more people live at home, improve the quality of care, and enable people to live better lives. The plans are designed to complement and enhance.

The programme, which has been approved by Tameside’s Single Commissioning Board, involves investment in a number of transformation projects, including services for people with dementia, carers and people with learning disabilities.

Surrey Council Council has asked SCIE to become a long-term improvement partner to provide challenge and support. This will help the council to develop and implement an adult care and support improvement plan. Key areas of focus will be on: Co-producing a robust improvement plan to deliver improved and financially sustainable services; Developing a strengths-based practice framework; Developing a robust commissioning and market-shaping plan; And transforming services for adults with learning disabilities and also reablement.

"Surrey County Council has been pleased to engage SCIE as our improvement partner aiming at adding capacity, challenge, support, knowledge and expertise to our adults social care improvement journey. It’s early days, but the partnership is shaping well and we all benefit from the open and engaging style SCIE is bringing, helping us build on areas of strength as well as known challenges." Simon White, Interim Executive Director, Adult Social Care, Surrey County Council.

Bexley has commissioned SCIE to become a long-term partner to review, challenge, give guidance and endorsement to help the senior management team deliver and implement their transformational Adult Social Care Pathways programme. This will involve reviewing and critically challenging their services model against good practice; and providing critical coaching and group reflection sessions with senior leaders.

SCIE has been asked by the States of Jersey to become a long-term learning partner on children’s social care. This role will include: Developing a learning programme for social workers; Supporting the implementation of a practice framework; Quality assuring and auditing to raise the standard of safeguarding practice; And coaching and mentoring to senior managers.

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has been running an All-age Disability service since 2015. This service comprises social workers specialised in adult care and social workers specialising in children’s social care, but all of them have knowledge of both adult and children services. SCIE has been commissioned to carry out a review of Barking and Dagenham’s All Age Disability services through:

• A review of national practice
• Workshops with strategic partners and leaders
• Engagement with staff, along with people who use services and families.

SCIE, in partnership with PPL and Cordis Bright, has been commissioned by NHS Digital to conduct a review to help define NHS Digital’s role in Adult Social Care. The purpose of this review, which involved desk-based analysis, interviews, a survey of stakeholders and workshops with leaders across NHS Digital, has been to support NHS Digital to develop a consistent narrative about its role and impact in relation to Adult Social Care; a narrative that is co-developed, shared internally and externally, and has the potential to influence future activity and outcomes.