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Moving from the margins: the challenges of building integrated local services
- Authors:
- ANDERSON Hannah, et al
- Publishers:
- Turning Point, Collaborate
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 15
- Place of publication:
- London
Discussion paper jointly produced by Collaborate and Turning Point, which presents seven key insights for building integrated public services. It argues local integrated services should be at the heart of strategies for social renewal and public service reform. The paper draws on the findings of a roundtable of experts which looked at why integrated services remain on the edge of public services. It highlights the behavioural, cultural and systemic challenges to greater integration. The paper also provides examples of different integrated services models, including Turning Point’s Connected Care model, the MEAM Approach developed by Making Every Adult Matter, and the West London Zone for Children and Young People. These three different approaches all demonstrate aspects of the seven insights, which is evidenced throughout the paper. The paper can be used to inform the commissioning, design and delivery of integrated services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Working in teams
- Authors:
- JELPHS Kim, DICKINSON Helen, MILLER Robin
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 144
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
This revised edition brings together cutting-edge thinking about team working, and considers how this can be turned into practice within the context of interagency settings. Working in teams sounds simple but the reality is often more difficult within complex health and social care systems. The book introduces a range of theories, models and research to demonstrate the benefits – and pitfalls – inherent in team working in collaborative settings. Through real-life examples the guide focuses on how inter-agency teams may be made to function more effectively. (Edited publisher abstract)
Child protection and family empowerment: competing rights or accordant goals?
- Author:
- GENTLES-GIBBS Natallie
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 22(4), 2016, pp.386-400.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Since the advent of the Family Support movement in the 1970s, child welfare systems have been challenged to simultaneously protect children and empower the families they serve. Despite the passage of decades, however, the systems continue to struggle with adequately integrating the pursuit of family empowerment into the fabric of their work. While it is generally agreed that family empowerment is important, child welfare administrators do not seem to agree on whether the system can be dually focused or whether child welfare should maintain its focus as a protective authority. This article addresses the ongoing tension between protection and empowerment and presents data from interviews with 30 child welfare caseworkers and supervisors from three counties in the Mid-Western region of the United States. The interviewees share their understanding of the relationship between child protection and family empowerment. They also discuss key aspects of child welfare organisational culture which indicate why family empowerment may still be a struggle for these systems. The data reveal that comprehensive training is needed within child welfare in order to move the family empowerment agenda forward. (Publisher abstract)
Mental health professional experiences of the flexible assertive community treatment model: a grounded theory study
- Authors:
- LEXEN Annika, SVENSSON Bengt
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 25(4), 2016, pp.379-384.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Background: Despite the lack of evidence for effectiveness of the Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (Flexible ACT), the model is considered feasible and is well received by mental health professionals. No current studies have adequately examined mental health professional experiences of working with Flexible ACT. Aims: The aim of this study was to explore mental health professional experiences of working with the Flexible ACT model compared with standard care. Method: The study was guided by grounded theory and based on the interviews with 19 theoretically chosen mental health professionals in Swedish urban areas primarily working with consumers with psychosis, who had worked with the Flexible ACT model for at least 6 months. Results: The analysis resulted in the core category: “Flexible ACT and the shared caseload create a common action space” and three main categories: (1) “Flexible ACT fills the need for a systematic approach to crisis intervention”; (2) “Flexible ACT has advantages in the psychosocial working environment”; and (3) “Flexible ACT increases the quality of care”. Conclusions: Mental health professionals may benefit from working with the Flexible ACT model through decreased job-strain and stress, increased feeling of being in control over their work situation, and experiences of providing higher quality of care. (Publisher abstract)
Placed-based services of care: guidance
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance aims to support healthcare professionals in their role to commission and deliver integrated services to local populations. Steps to better health, wellbeing and care can be driven by a place-based approach through integrated commissioning systems with devolved pooled budgets, participatory budgeting and agreed shared outcomes. Key guidance on creating a better care system and developing sustainable transformation plans is highlighted. (Edited publisher abstract)
Managing and leading in inter-agency settings
- Authors:
- DICKINSON Helen, CAREY Gemma
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 144
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This updated edition provides a guide to the leadership and management of inter-agency collaborative endeavours. Although leadership and management are seen as central to developing effective integrated working, there is relatively little thoughtful work analysing the relationship between the two sets of ideas. The book summarises recent trends in policy, establishes what we can learn from research and practice, and uses international evidence to set out useful frameworks and approaches to address a range of problems that collaborations face. (Edited publisher abstract)
Local government: alternative models of service delivery
- Author:
- SANDFORD Mark
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Library
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 26
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing paper provides an introduction to some of the alternative approaches being used by local authorities to deliver either public services or their own internal functions. These include the use of shared services, between multiple local authorities and also between local authorities and other public bodies; outsourcing to private or voluntary providers, and its obverse, insourcing; the increasing use of Local Authority Trading Companies (LATCs) to trade for profit, providing a revenue stream for the local authority; and mutuals. It also notes the development of place-based sharing of services via community budgets and via the 2015-16 devolution deals. The briefing also includes notes on research that has been conducted on shared services, outsourcing, and trading, and links to relevant statistical sources.
Implementing the Forward View: supporting providers to deliver
- Author:
- NHS IMPROVEMENT
- Publisher:
- NHS Improvement
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 35
This document is part of a series of roadmaps that draw on messages from the NHS Planning Guidance and set out the key priorities for specific audiences that are responsible for delivering high quality health and care this year and beyond. The document outlines the challenges and changes ahead; describes a coherent set of activities for NHS providers in the coming years; shows how providers across the country are beginning to deliver these; and outlines the support providers can expect from NHS Improvement. (Edited publisher abstract)
Making devolution deals work
- Authors:
- RANDALL Joe, CASEBOURNE Jo
- Publisher:
- Institute for Government
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 26
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the current devolution deals process in England – discussing its history and analysing the opportunities and challenges that it presents for achieving more effective government. The report sets out the challenges and highlights the three opportunities that form the basis of most arguments in favour of the devolution process: boosting economic growth and productivity; joining up and reforming public services, including employment, health, skills, education, transport and social care; and increasing innovation and experimentation in public services. The document then presents a practical tool – developed from a recent project which looked closely at devolution in one particular policy area – which aims to help guide decision makers across different policy areas as well to consider what, and how, to devolve. The guide comprises four sections: setting up a devolution deal-making process; assessing local area readiness for devolution; assessing central government readiness for devolution; and ‘sense checking’ and understanding the implications for the system that result from the devolution proposals. (Edited publisher abstract)
Joint working to deliver better care
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, et al
- Publisher:
- London Councils
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 25
- Place of publication:
- London
Short report of joint event organised by London Health and Care Integration Collaborative, SCIE and PPL on the theme of joint working to deliver better care. The event was attended by over 70 people in London with an interest in or involved in delivering integrated care. It aimed to enable participants to hear the views of experts, share learning and practice about what works, and learn about practical steps they can take to develop joint working and ensure it works effectively. Areas covered included developing an effective communications and engagement strategy, leading co-ordinated, co-located teams, and co-producing change with people who use services. The report provides summaries of the plenary sessions and discussion at the event. Key messages include, that: prevention, early intervention and integrated care are all linked; leaders are able to look beyond their own organisation to the needs of the system overall; we need to see communities and people as assets with contributions to make; and that getting staff buy in and valuing staff contributions and ideas is critical. (Edited publisher abstract)