1. Social Services & Well-being (Wales) Act Andrew Bell, SSIA
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2. Implementation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act
Training & Awareness
£1m in for the Care Council for Wales to develop a national learning and development strategy.
A further £1m of Welsh Government funding in
Under the banner of Getting in on the Act, an Information and Learning Hub has been launched designed to be a one-stop-shop for the wide range of resources that will be produced as part of this initiative -
4 Core Training modules – Care Council & IPC (Introduction & General Functions; Assessing & Meeting Needs; Looked After & Accommodated Children; Safeguarding)
Other modules have been developed, e.g.advocacy, working with carers
Welsh Government-led national awareness raising campaign supported by LA’s
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3. Delivering Transformation Grant
Welsh Government provided a £1.5m Delivering Transformation Grant for 2013/14 and 2014/15 to support implementation.
£3m in 2015/16.
£3m for focus on ensuring new systems and processes are in place and ensure that all partners, including the public are engaged in the changes.
A view to transferring this sum into the Revenue Support Grant from
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4. National & Regional Arrangements
Setting up of National Partnership (Political Leaders) and Leadership Boards (Professional Leaders) and National Citizen’s Panel
National arrangements replicated on a regional level
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5. National & Regional Arrangements
Led across the regions by joint leadership arrangements – readiness assessments and implementation plans
National priority areas identified as the focus of work going forward, including:
Workforce
Performance Management
New Approaches to Practice
New Models of Service
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6. Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act
SSIA Programmes:
National Outcomes Framework
Single Point of Access (Dewis Cymru)
Population Assessment
Preventative services (Reablement / Assistive Technology)
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7. National Outcomes Framework
9 pilots sites across Wales (Adult and Children)
Some of the key findings:
Scoring & recording personal outcomes (using the distance travelled approach) works best at a local level
Scoring not comparable – so limited national value
Staff support key (often significant change in practice/organisation required)
Organisation/management need to support staff (e.g. giving time to carry out approach)
IT and process of recording information needs to be closely aligned with approach
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8. National Outcomes Framework
Further plans:
Exploring rollout/support options for other LA’s
Exploring cross sharing of learning to First Point of Contact staff
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10. The resource directory…
Dewis holds information on a resource, including:
What is it?
Who is it for?
Is there a cost? If so, how much?
How to access it?
How to contact it?
By post
In person
By telephone
Electronically
Via social media
Where the resource is available?
Low level geography function…
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11. Implementation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act
Dewis so far…
Dewis went ‘live’ across North Wales on 28 September 2015 and formally launched at the NSSC 2016
Currently has over 3,500 resources and 1,500 registered users
21 local authorities across Wales are now involved in the Dewis Cymru project and most recently Cwm Taf region ‘went live’ with their local information on 12 July
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12. Population Assessment
Development of the Population Assessment toolkit:
Clarifies what is needed to comply with the legislation
Gives an overview of the benefits a population assessment can bring
Provides a planning tool to help plan the assessment
Breaks down the tasks to help make the process more manageable
Advises on how to approach the assessment and fulfil organisation’s responsibilities
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13. Implementation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act
Toolkit available from:
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14. Preventative Services
Reablement:
On-going support to the Reablement LIN
Reablement Dementia Training Package
Reablement Dementia Service Resource
Assistive Technology:
On-going support to Assistive LIN
Development of a National Framework for Technology Enabled Care
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15. Implementation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act
Progress
National Independent Safeguarding Board established
Regional Safeguarding Boards – Adults and Children’s
National Adoption Service - overseen by a Governance Board (Political) and an Advisory Group (Professional) 
Other groups set up – e.g. Secure Estate Steering Group, ‘When I am Ready’ Scheme
Roll out of training:
Basic awareness for all staff
4 core national training modules
Senior Management training
Members training
Regional Partnership Boards established (building on current regional arrangements)
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16. Supporting Implementation
New national leadership arrangements - draws together a cross-section of citizens as leaders, local government representatives, NHS representatives and those representing wider stakeholder groups in one board to support and advise Ministers
WLGA Social Services Policy Group (SSPG) to support Elected Members
Bi-laterals with Minister
Peer reviews
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17. Implementation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act
Evaluation
WG evaluation to look at whether the act is achieving what it set out to achieve. Focus on key policies, such as assessment and eligibility to provide the basis for evidenced based policy improvement and development.
The evaluation will be undertaken in 3 phases:
1. Monitoring policies under the Act during the initial year of implementation to understand whether policy is being implemented as intended and to support policy improvement.
2. On-going evaluation, through the national outcomes framework and the local authority performance measurement framework. Reporting undertaken annually and provide information on whether well-being is improving nationally. First report of the national outcomes framework will be published in 2016/17 and first report of the performance measurement framework will be in 2017/18.
3. An independent long term one-off evaluation which will commence in the third year of the implementation of the Act.
WAO - LG studies programme
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18. Other Issues / Opportunities
Regulation & Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act
Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act – local service board to public service boards 2016/17
WG Strategic Steering Group for Improving Outcomes for Children
Community Care Information System (CCIS)
Intermediate Care Fund
Paying for Care
WG Strategic Steering Group for Improving Outcomes for Children - Mark Drakeford concerned about LAC established this group to develop a national strategic for LAC
Paying for Care – manifesto Labour up 24k 50k – what that would mean / Gwenda set up a group around national living wage and impact of £60 cap
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19. Implementation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act
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