Archive of July, 2015

Cordis Briefing: July 2015

July 2015

This first ever Cordis Briefing under a Conservative Government covered the following topics:

• Spending cuts impact and geography
• Integration of health and social care
• Workforce
• Social care outcomes for service users
• What next? 10 recommendations on how social care providers should proceed from here

Extracts from the Briefing can be downloaded here.

Cordis Pulse: July 2015

July 2015

This edition of the Pulse includes:

• Reports by the National Audit Office and The Sutton Trust on the Pupil Premium.
• Ofsted guidance on inspection from September 2015
• Centre for Crime and Justice Studies’ fourth annual UK Justice Policy Review.
• Statutory guidance on how police and local authorities should use gang injunctions.
• CQC review of mental health crisis care.
• King’s Fund study on implementing integrated commissioning for health and social care.

Social care market sustainability

July 2015

This comprehensive new guidance and toolkit from Cordis Bright, produced following extensive consultation with the sector and with the input of an expert panel, suggests a robust but straightforward way that councils can engage in light touch market oversight to help local authorities come to a view about the sustainability of their local care markets and the providers within them, and therefore be in a better place to meet their new duties and promote and maintain the wellbeing of their local populations.