Archive of October, 2017

Cordis Pulse: October 2017

October 2017

This month we’re pleased to include details of the research that we undertook in partnership with the London Borough of Newham about supporting looked after children closer to home. In addition, this month's issue includes details of the early findings of our research with ADAAS regarding how councils can maintain an adequate supply of good quality home care. Our research finds several examples of good practice including: actively encouraging smaller home care businesses through more stable contracting and payment arrangements, developing outcome-based home care specifications, working with selected providers to design a service that meets the council's needs, and proactively supporting the development of local trade bodies and resourcing them to provide training to frontline care staff.

Continuing Professional Education and Learning Framework

October 2017

This is the executive summary of the year 3 report of the independent evaluation of the Continuing Professional Education and Learning (CPEL) Framework for social workers. It forms part of a five-year longitudinal evaluation, which was commissioned by Social Care Wales (formerly the Care Council for Wales) and is being conducted by Cordis Bright.

The evaluation considers: (a) how the CPEL Framework helps to improve the quality of social work practice, (b) how it helps to improve career progression and career development, (c) how it improves retention of social workers, (d) how it helps to improve outcomes for service users and carers, and (e) the level of take-up, attendance and completion of the CPEL Framework programmes.

Further information is available on the website for Social Care Wales.

National Children and Adult Services Conference

October 2017

This presentation was first made during the National Children and Adult Services Conference.

Tom Noon presented the early findings of a research project co-produced between Cordis Bright and ADASS about how councils can maintain an adequate supply of good quality home care. This is a particular challenge given reducing council budgets, the national minimum wage, workforce supply, increasingly complex care needs and the financial sustainability of independent providers.