Celebrating the Core

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Celebrating the Core

• Social Care Competencies in Changing Contexts

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Celebrating the Core
Changing Contexts for Adult Social Care

• From institutions to care at home
• More mixed economy of care
• Promoting independence
• Self-directed care

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Celebrating the Core
Changing Contexts for Adult Social Care
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• Still need for intensive care
• Market prices out stripping the money
• Increasing demand from demography
• NHS narrowing definition
• Two tier quality and availability of services

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Celebrating the Core
Changing Contexts for Childrens Social Care

• Focus on well-being
• Focus on opportunity and ambition
• Focus on achievement
• Focus on contributing

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Celebrating the Core
Changing Contexts for Childrens Social Care
BUT

• Still not a level-playing field for all children
• Competition for recognition and success
  increasing
• Demonising of children and young people

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Celebrating the Core
Whats Ahead

• Chaos and confusion/turmoil and trauma for major
  partners
• NHS
• Education
• Housing
• VCS

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Celebrating the Core
Whats Ahead

• The Adult Social Care Green Paper or the
  Out-of-Hospital Services (NHS) White Paper?

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Celebrating the Core
Whats Ahead

• Every Child Matters or Survival of the
  Fittest

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Celebrating the Core
Whats Ahead

• Rediscovery of Community, Neighbourhood and
  Local
• LSPs/LAAs and joined up agendas

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Celebrating the Core
Whats Ahead

• (Active) citizenship
• (Focus on) capability and competence
• Consumer choice and control
• Self-funders
• Direct payments
• Individual personal budgets

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Whats Ahead
BUT

• Possible attack on social security benefits

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Celebrating the Core
Workforce Implications?

• Changes of culture
• Facilitating
• Enabling
• Allies
• Client rather than management directed

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Celebrating the Core
Workforce Implications?

• Changes of role
• assistance not care
• with not to

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Celebrating the Core

• A Continuum of Control and Power

Paternalistic andpatronising
Partnership
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Celebrating the Core
The Social Care and Social Work Basic Core

• People in context
• Valuing not rejecting
• Realism with idealism
• Recognising and developing strengths and skills
• Problem solving in partnership

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Celebrating the Core
The Social Care and Social Work Basic Core

• Providing structure amidst chaos
• Enabling and facilitating
• Being an ally in promoting independence and
  choice
• Harnessing resources
• Not running away from the pain
• Protecting when necessary

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Celebrating the Core
Workforce Implications?

• Greater diversity of employers
• Exposure in multi-disciplinary teams
• Professional identity, competence and confidence
• Skills mix changing
• Skilling up
• Clarity of competency requirements
• Improved status, qualifications, recognition(and
  rewards)

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Celebrating the Core
Workforce Implications?

• Addressing workforce demography
• Ageing workforce
• Equality and diversity
• Addressing workforce shortages
• Migrant workers
• Technology
• Promotion and prevention
• Universal services
• Inverting the pyramid
• SWOT analysis?

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