Social Care, Health and Housing The Future of Social Work – Making Connections22 September 2011Linda Sanders – Corporate Director of SCH&H

Outline of Conference

• Housekeeping• Purpose of the Conference• Introducing the main presenters

Local Context - Social Care

• Approx 200 Social Workers (Hillingdon)• Adult Social Care budget £96m• 6,079 adults were accessing social care

services in 2010/2011 (including residential and nursing care).

• Children and Families budget £40m (Incl UASC)

• 2,239 children in need at year end

Opportunities for Social Work

• New structure to optimise adults and children’s services

• Ensuring that skilled professionals are not carrying out work that does not require their level of skills and expertise

• Ensuring that Team Managers have robust support mechanisms in place to manage their service

A shared vision for Adults and Children• Training and Personal

Development• Recruitment and Retention• Using evidence based practice • Range of career options • Effective leadership • Integrated working with our

Partners

Delivering the Vision

• Five key areas:– Using resources effectively and efficiently– Helping people to live at home– Working together– Personalisation - The role of social work– Prevention and Early Intervention

2. Managing the 2. Managing the support systemsupport system

1. Managing demand1. Managing demand

3. Managing 3. Managing supplysupply Parent and

carer support

Information, Advice and Guidance

Targeted preventative

services

(including intensive support)

Single point of access (signposting, screening and meeting low level

need)

Reducing high cost packages

Universal services

Safe, warm affordable

living environments

TeleCareLine

Personal Budgets

Housing- related support

Safeguarding and Child Protection

Reablement

Common Operating Model Recruiting &

retaining foster carers

Supported Housing

Reconfigured Day Services

Value for money IFA placements

Workforce development

2. Helping people to live at home

• Supported Housing Options• TeleCareLine

3. Working Together

• Universal to targeted• Aligning effort with voluntary sector

services• In Hillingdon the funding and continued

delivery of voluntary sector services is core to our strategy for support

4. Personalisation – The role of Social Work

• 'In adult’s and children’s services, social workers are essential to the delivery of personalised services and to achieving better outcomes with children and adults of all ages who need services, support or protection.'

5. Prevention and Early Intervention• Project launched with Planning,

Environment, Education, and Community Services and Social Care, Health & Housing called Family Intervention

• Prevention and early intervention are key to current social policy in the UK

• Social Workers also have a key role in supporting the most challenging and vulnerable people to access and engage with universal, primary and secondary preventive services