Delivering Specialist Social Care in a Time of Austerity
Author: Tom Simpson, Localis |
Delivering Specialist Social Care in a Time of Austerity
This Discussion Note follows the 10th November 2010 roundtable event hosted by Localis in conjunction with ISIS Equity Partners on ‘Delivering Specialist Social Care in a Time of Austerity’. The conversation at the event focused on key issues surrounding the social care system at a time when costs must be reduced. Specific points of discussion included: what is the best approach to deliver a fully personalised care system; how the quality of services might best be maintained while savings are delivered to the public purse; how working partnerships between local authorities and the private sector might be encouraged; and how innovation in the private sector can help to provide more effective outcomes in the social care sector.
The roundtable was chaired by Cllr Daniel Astaire, Cabinet Member for Society, Families and Adult Services at Westminster City Council.