Meet Deborah Limb
Deborah and her team work
with customers every day to
help them deliver great
learning that drives
performance improvement in
their organisations.
• Built using responsive design
• Customisable in the content builder
• Free to existing Social Care
subscribers
Why is Care Act training from Learning Pool different?
• Response to Francis Inquiry & Mid Staffordshire events
• Increase transparency and openness
• Drive up the quality of care
• Much more understandable
What does the Care Act place emphasis on?
• preventing dependency
• promoting independence
• integration of services and between health and social
care
• building the capacity of communities to care for themselves
Vision of the Care Act
• the prevention disability and the maintenance of independence
• the importance of choice, control and dignity
• enabling those who use social care services to realise their potential and to participate in society on the same basis as every other citizen
• for individuals receiving support the right to live a fulfilling life
Over a period of time with the
majority of changes taking
place this April, with the
reform of funding taking effect
from April 2016
Implementation
of the
Care Act
The Care Act is broken down into 5 parts (or chapters) plus 8
schedules.
The Parts of the Act are:
Part 1 (Clauses 1 - 80): Care and Support
Part 2 (Clauses 81 - 95): Care Standards
Part 3 (Clauses 96 – 120): Health
Part 4 (Clauses 121 – 122): Health and Social Care
Part 5 (Clauses 123 – 129): General
• Take on new functions
• Embed the changes within
their teams
• Duties come into effect in
two changes
What’s the
Impact on Local
Authorities?
The first Learning Pool course covers
• The origins of the Care Act
• The purpose of the Act
• Fundamental changes
And much more….
The second Learning Pool course covers
• Assessing individuals &
carers
• Eligible needs and how
these are assessed
• Care planning
And much more….
• Personal budgets
• Carers rights
• Minimum eligibility criteria
• New assessment framework
• Prevention agenda
• Provide info to everyone in their area
• Adult safeguarding placed on a statutory footing
• Bring about more choice
• Funding reforms
The Act provides for parents and other carers of disabled children
approaching adulthood to be assessed for support from adult social care too.
• Various existing Acts will be replaced by the Care Act 2014
• New general duty for local to ‘promote of individual wellbeing’
• Expect a rise in demand for assessments
• Change of culture
Learning Pool are producing 14 modules to replace Common Induction Standards and National Minimum
Training Standards.
Care Certificate content
The Care Certificate should help to ensure that the practitioners have the required values, behaviours,
competences and skills to provide high quality, compassionate care.
It will be introduced in March 2015.
The Care
Certificate
Standards
14 modules including :
• Understand Your Role
• Your Personal Development
• Duty of Care
• Equality and Diversity
• Work taking place to ensure that all the adult social care courses are fully up to date following the implementation of the Act
• We currently have 60 courses in our social care suite
• All of these courses will have been reviewed and updated by the first of April
Thank you!
1. Short survey when the Learning Hour closes
2. A link to a recording of this webinar will be hitting your inbox
3. Continue the conversation on www.learningpool.com or email [email protected] for further details
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