Care and health career academies are relatively new initiatives, and the national picture is constantly evolving. This project was undertaken to develop a better understanding of care and health career academies in England. It aims to share emerging learning on the development of academies and insights as to what good looks like.
This insight project was developed to get a national temperature check of safeguarding adults’ activity during April 2022-March 2023, surrounding the impact of the cost of living, hospital discharge and winter pressures.
The purpose of the analysis was to identify priorities for sector-led improvement as a result of learning from SARs completed between 2019 and 2023, a period of time that included the COVID-19 pandemic.
The analysis builds on the findings of the first national analysis, published in 2020, which considered learning from SARs completed between 2017 and 2019.
Adult social care in all councils in England will be assessed by Care Quality Commission (CQC) before the end of 2025. This is the first such review for 15 years and is intended as an opportunity to celebrate the good work being done and how councils are addressing areas that they wish to improve. A similar CQC assurance process for Integrated Care Systems is being piloted currently and reviews of them all will also be completed by December 2025.
The following summary sets out a new programme of sector led improvement support for adult social care and public health services available to councils in 2024/25.
Understanding the necessary conditions for councils with adult social care responsibilities to move to collaborative, strength- based, preventative approaches.
A practitioners' guide to applying the community coordinated approach for adult social care front door model. This report is linked to a strategic overview of the model.
This practical guidance draws on extensive engagement with front line teams, statutory guidance and mental health discharge operational models that are working well across the country.
This report highlights the activities and support offers delivered over the course of the 23/24 improvement programme, highlighting the councils or systems we have engaged with, the unique support offers we have developed and the outcomes and outputs we have achieved in delivery of our improvement programme.
