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Adult placement scheme guidance log
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidance logs (formerly known as precedent logs) are used by inspectors to apply the National Minimum Standards. Inspectors use the logs when queries arise about the interpretation of a particular standard, or where clarification is needed on how a particular aspect of a service should be inspected against the standards.
Coronavirus COVID-19 guidance for Shared Lives carers and schemes
- Author:
- SHARED LIVES PLUS
- Publisher:
- Shared Lives Plus
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 11
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide provides advice for Shared Lives carers, and Shared Lives scheme workers and provider organisations to support planning and preparation in the event of an outbreak or widespread transmission of COVID-19. The advice will also help their partner agencies and commissioners. It draws on government advice and includes information on the actions provider organisations can take to maintain service delivery; provision of personal protective equipment (PPE); cleaning and laundry.
Key lines of enquiry: prompts and evidence for community and shared lives services
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 32
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This draft document has been developed to help Care Quality Commission’s inspectors assess whether community and shared lives services meet fundamental standards of quality and safety. It contains prompts for key lines of enquiries and identifies possible sources of evidence in relation to key indicators, which include safety, effectiveness, caring, responsiveness and good leadership. The prompts and the sources of evidence are not an exhaustive list but are there to support what inspectors may want to cover during the inspection process for an individual service. (Edited publisher abstract)
Characteristics of ratings for community and shared lives services
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
The characteristics have been developed to help Care Quality Commission’s inspectors assessing community and shared lives services make a judgement against each key line of enquiry and then rate them. This then ultimately leads to an overall rating for the service, using the rating aggregation tool. The starting point is a description of the characteristics of a good service. The characteristics are not a checklist and are not exhaustive. They are written to help draw a picture of a service in respect of five key areas, including safety, effectiveness, caring, responsiveness and good leadership. (Edited publisher abstract)
Qualifications for adult placement carers, worker and managers: guidance for inspectors and adult placement schemes:
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance gives information about the qualifications, training and development opportunities that adult placement schemes should provide for their carers, workers and managers.
Cross-border placements
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance has been produced to assist local authorities in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) involved in cross-border placements as described in Schedule 1 to the Care Act 2014. Its aim is to support continuity of care across the UK’s borders by setting out clear values and good practice. A cross-border placement is where an adult is being, or has been, placed by an English, Welsh or Scottish local authority or Northern Irish health and social care trust into accommodation in a different UK country in order to meet their social care needs. The guidance covers the key principles, a general overview of the main legal frameworks, the process and reporting arrangements, handling complaints, disputes between authorities and provider failure. Includes short case studies, examples of case law which may have an impact on the setting up of cross-border placements and a list of references. (Edited publisher abstract)
Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing for anyone working in adult social care who are not part of regular testing at work and unpaid carers
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance explains how anyone working in adult social care in England who is not part of a regular testing regime at work can access twice-weekly COVID-19 testing. This includes staff working in adult social care who are not part of regular testing at work, for example Shared Lives carers, personal assistants, social workers; and unpaid carers. The guidance states that they should order a box of 7 lateral flow tests (LFTs) every 21 days, or an employer should order test kits on their behalf; they should take a test twice a week and register them online; if they receive a positive lateral flow test result they should order and conduct a confirmatory polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test immediately, isolate until they receive a result, and notify your employer. This document updates earlier the guidance 'Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing for personal assistants'. (Edited publisher abstract)
Parent and child fostering
- Authors:
- ADAMS Paul, DIBBEN Elaine
- Publisher:
- CoramBAAF
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide offers advice, information and practical suggestions on how to deliver a good quality parent and child fostering service. Parent and child arrangements with foster carers are a well-established phenomenon in England and Wales; less so in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In the majority of cases, this means adults with their children living with foster carers, usually in the context of care proceedings. Having adult parents in the foster home brings new challenges to fostering services that are at different stages in their development of provision for making parent and child arrangements and best practice requires them to consider how this particular type of fostering differs from traditional fostering in each respect, from approval, through matching to support and training. This new edition includes information on the legal context of parent and child arrangements; messages from research and serious case reviews; types of parent and child fostering; assessment and approval; training and supporting foster carers; care planning and placement planning; developing policies and procedures. The book is illustrated with case examples of good practice from local authority fostering services as well as the independent sector. It also includes a set of assessment and matching forms (also available electronically) that can be used by fostering services in their parent and child fostering cases. (Edited publisher abstract)
Parent and child fostering
- Authors:
- ADAMS Paul, DIBBEN Elaine
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 154p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The number of parent and child arrangements with foster carers is growing rapidly. Some local authorities have established dedicated teams to deal with this and independent fostering agencies in England suggest that these cases constitute up to 10 per cent of their total referrals. There is a history of ad hoc arrangements to allow teenage parents to remain with their baby. However, the new demand includes the placements of adults with their children, usually in the context of care proceedings. This is a specialist area of work, given the complexity around the legal status of the parent and child, as well as the uniqueness of having adult parents in the foster home. BAAF's practice guidance, based on the recent statutory guidance for England, brings together advice and good practice to support these emerging services. It focuses on the practical challenges and issues and includes information on: the legal context of parent and child arrangements; messages from research and serious case reviews; types of parent and child fostering; assessment and approval; training and supporting foster carers; care planning and placement planning; assessing parents and good enough parenting; and developing policies and procedures. The guidance is illustrated with case examples from both local authority and independent agencies. Appendices contain examples of assessment forms, placement agreements, and support schemes.
Identifying a deprivation of liberty: a practical guide
- Author:
- THE LAW SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- Law Society
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 135
- Place of publication:
- London
This practice guide has been commissioned by the Department of Health to help frontline social and health professionals decide whether an individual they are concerned with may be deprived of their liberty due to the type of care or treatment that they are receiving or the level of restrictive practices that they are subject to. It focuses on the practical application of the legal principles. Part I provides details of the legal framework that governs deprivation of liberty and outlines the central principles of Article 5 European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). It then summarises the key elements of the Cheshire West decision. Part II details the most common settings in which a deprivation of liberty may occur: hospitals; psychiatric care; care homes; supported living services, such a shared lives schemes and extra care housing; Deprivation of liberty at home; and under 18s. For each setting the guidance identifies some of the factors that may point towards there being a deprivation of liberty; suggests scenarios which are very likely to/may/or not amount to a deprivation; and poses a number of questions that professionals can ask themselves when making decisions. The document includes links case law throughout. Part III provides summaries of key legal cases and further information and resources. The guidance is primarily relevant to the position in England and Wales. Quick reference guides covering each individual setting are also available. (Edited publisher abstract)