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"Brave New World - Transforming Social Care: Personalisation And Quality". Confirmed speakers include Baroness Young (Shadow Chair Care Quality Commission), Andrea Rowe (CEO, Skills for Care), Ruth Passman/ David Jones (DH), Keith Lewin (Brunswicks LLP). As usual there will be an LCA 'Question Time' social and health care panel this year chaired by David Brindle of the Guardian: bring your questions. Email us your questions. Click Here to Download Booking Form Keep up to date with all the latest information about Conference, Local and National Care News and the work of the Lancashire Care Association and its members, to provide the best possible care for current and future service users. Click Here to Subscribe to our fortnightly E-Newsletter
We've now held two joint workshops with Lancs County Council through the Social Care Partnership, one for residential care and one for domiciliary care. Both were very well attended and well-received. Look out for a programme of future workshops whose main aim is to bring council operational and managerial staff into joint learning forums with independent sector care staff, managers and proprietors. LANCASHIRE 'DIGNITY IN CARE' CHARTER LCA has jointly prepared the wording of Lancashire's Dignity in Care Charter with LCC. The charter has been given a major profile at both at the recent 'Learning Together' workshops held at Farington Lodge by LCA and LCC with the support of the Dept of Health who are managing the campaign nationally. Sir Michael Parkinson in the Dignity Ambassador (unfortunately, he was unavailable for our Conference and Gala Dinner!). There's a premium in the fees' settlement linked to the signing of the Charter. We are encouraging every provider (care homes and dom care) to sign up. To read the 'DIGNITY IN CARE' Charter, please Click Here OTHER CURRENT LCA BUSINESS Equipment in Care Homes in East Lancs. LCA met with PCT and local authority reps on 17 July. There will be a task group meeting in August, with the PCT commissioners joining the group, under the title "Let common sense prevail". The aim being to drawn up an fair, unequivocal and affordable agreement around equipment in care homes. Look out for our next e-newsletter when I may need comments from providers on specific proposals. 'CAREFULLY newsletter' Summer edition of our 'glossy' newsletter 'Carefully', out now. The conference round up edition of Carefully will remain an A4 printed glossy; the other 3 quarters will be available in pdf-only. 'Dignity in Care' is the front-page feature of the current edition. We have a Lancashire 'Dignity in Care' Charter which we encourage all quality providers to sign up to. We will further profile the Charter on the run-up to conference. Click Here to view 'Carefully' WHAT HAS THE LCA ACHIEVED? This year the LCA has worked with both the Adult Services Directorate of Lancs County Council and the wider executive to take a more evidenced-based approach to setting fees using the Fair Price model and by linking an additional premium for care homes and for dom care providers to the signing of the Dignity in Care Charter. The work, riding on 6 years' worth of partnership working between LCA and LCC, resulted in one of the best national settlements for care providers (6% for dom care and just under 7% for band 1 homes). We need to build on this, with a review of the Fair Price model in practice (which we are doing with the 3 Lancashire authorities who helped commission the original work, and continue to be bold about our commitment to ensuring that only quality care wins out. The best providers in Lancashire share the passion for delivering quality care and we can, through an organised and effective association like LCA, lead the way on how to work with local authorities who remain the major purchasers. At the same time, we need to adapt to the 'new world' (of personalisation and individual budgets) which may look very different, with individual purchasers driving the system; and we're working on that, too. Look out for the notes of our meetings with the Social Care Partnership to appear on these web pages. We are also engaging Ministers and Mandarins in the lessons from the Lancashire model. Our work with Blackpool resulted in, again, the wider executive council recognising the needs of older people's care and raising their fees' offer above the national average (3%). We also had a very positive Blackpool BC/LCA annual workshop at the Solaris Centre. There is also an agreement to see a new partnership forum developing with Blackburn with Darwen BC. We also have a clutch of genuine supplier deals available only to members. We've had over a hundred new members 2007-08. If you are a quality provider from the private or voluntary sector, help us help you. Support us. Join us. Email: sarah.luton@lancashirecare.org.uk . MEMBER BENEFITS LCA is continuously looking out for supplier deals for members. Click here to keep up to date. Paul Simic LCA Co Ltd. Company Registration No. 04345448. Not for profit company limited by guarantee. Registered Office, Centurion Hse, Centurion Way, PR25 3GR. Registered in England |
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