Current category: Social Services
03/10/2017
Inquiry into care experienced children and young people.pdf – Oct-2017
Welsh Local Government Association, All Wales Heads of Children’s Services and National Adoption Service for Wales response to the National Assembly for Wales, Public Accounts Committee's inqury - Care experienced children and young people.
02/10/2017
Commissioning Services for People with a Learning Disability – Good Practice Guidance.pdf – Oct-2017
The purpose of this good practice guidance, which has been developed by the National Commissioning Board, is to help the Regional Partnership Boards to develop their own approaches to the integrated commissioning of services for people with learning disabilities.
03/08/2017
WLGA Press Statement on R (on the application of Forge Care Homes Ltd and others) (Appellants) v Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and others (Respondents) [2017] UKSC 56 On appeal from [2016] EWCA Civ 26
In responding to today’s Supreme Court Judgment, the final ruling in relation to Funded Nursing Care (FNC), the WLGA is…
02/07/2017
NCB Supporting the development of market shaping activities in Wales – Workshop Report.pdf – Jul-2017
This brief report summarises the key areas of discussion from the event, as well as developing the ideas from participants about potential support activities.
02/05/2017
Wales Market Analysis of Care Homes for Older People – Draft Findings for Discussion.pdf – May-2017
This study is designed to analyze and describe the state of the care home market for older people in Wales. The Care Home Steering group commissioned the National Commissioning Board to undertake the study. This is not a final report.
02/05/2017
Wales Market Analysis of Care Homes for Older People – Annex 1 Market Analysis Tables.pdf – May-2017
Annex 1 Market Analysis Tables.
02/04/2017
Report: National Assessment of Commissioning Skills and Capacity in Wales (Older People Services).pdf – Apr-2017
Report from the Institute of Public Care at Oxford Brookes University (IPC) assessing joint commissioning skills and capacity across social care and health for older people services in Wales in order to inform the development of national resources to meet any gaps that are identified. The approach taken has been based on that developed through a pilot assessment in West Wales.
02/04/2017
Appendix A – Assessment Framework: National Assessment of Commissioning Skills and Capacity in Wales (Older People Services).pdf – Apr-2017
This framework describes the skills and capacity needed across local authorities and health boards and provides the context for the national mapping exercise. It has been developed following a review of a range of commissioning resources and examples from Wales and elsewhere.
02/04/2017
Appendix B – Survey Responses: National Assessment of Commissioning Skills and Capacity in Wales (Older People Services).pdf – Apr-2017
The survey responses cover three main areas: (1) breakdown of job roles by region and organisation, (2) commissioning skills average ratings by organisation and (3) comments on enablers and barriers.
02/04/2017
SSIA Legacy Report 2006-17.pdf – Apr-2017
This legacy report provides a chronological account of the Social Services Improvement Agency’s journey from 2006-2017. It also identifies five programmes undertaken by the Agency that best evidence its most innovative and transformational work.
03/03/2017
Inquiry into loneliness and isolation.pdf – Mar-2017
Welsh Local Government Association and ADSS Cymru response to the National Assemmbly for Wales, Health, Social Care and Sport Commitee inquiry into loneliness and isolation.
02/03/2017
National Commissioning Board – Leading Integrated and Collaborative Commissioning – A Practice Guide.pdf – Mar-2017
This short practical guide is intended to stimulate commissioners and other senior managers to think about how they can take forward an integrated commissioning agenda locally and regionally. Focusing on the health, social care and wellbeing context with the emergence of regional partnership boards, it considers the roles and options available to local authorities and health boards.