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Issue 359: 19 March 2024
This bulletin covers:
*Care Quality Commission: *new provider portal
*Adult social care:* personal assistants and micro providers; key trends; £20 million investment
*Training and development:* home care webinar
*Workforce:* migration reforms
*Health and wellbeing: *personal protective equipment
*Have your say:* safety through learning; women’s health and wellbeing services
*Digital social care:* data security and business continuity
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Care Quality Commission
New provider portal
On 12 March, Care Quality Commission (CQC)
made its new provider portal [
] available to all providers for sign up. This was one day later than expected and some providers had a difficult experience trying to sign up.
Ian Trenholm, CQC chief executive officer, apologised and said CQC is working quickly to resolve the issues.
He added: “I know how important it is for registered managers and nominated individuals to be able to delegate access to others in their organisation, and this will soon be available.”
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Adult social care
*‘Drop-ins’ for personal assistants and other micro providers*
If you are a personal assistant or a small business (micro provider) offering care and support services in East Sussex, you’re invited to come along to one of our ‘drop-in’ events in June.
You can meet the teams and services which offer advice and support in areas such as business advice and training, following the closure of the Support With Confidence scheme in December 2023.
The events will be held at:
* Beeching Park day centre, Beeching Road, Bexhill, TN39 3LG on *05 June* from *10:00am* to *3:00pm*
* St Mary’s House, St Leonards Road, Eastbourne BN21 3UU on *10 June* from *10:00am* to *3:00pm.*
There’ll be more about these events nearer the time, but for now, please save the dates.
More information:
* ESCC Adult Social Care and Health (ASCH) lead Member meeting 06 March 2024 [
]. This meeting decided on the replacement services to East Sussex personal assistants, businesses and residents following closure of the Support with Confidence scheme
* how we will work with personal assistants and micro providers: Summary of proposed approach [
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If you would like to work with us to develop resources, such as developing webpages and checklists, you can register your interest: Support.WithConfidence@eastsussex.gov.uk
Key trends in social care
The King’s Fund has issued (13 March) the latest edition of its annual social care 360 [
] which analyses the 12 key trends in adult social care in England.
Trends for 2022/23 showed:
* continued contraction in eligibility to receive care with financial thresholds not having changed since 2010/11
* cost to local authorities of purchasing care continues to increase faster than inflation
* social care workforce vacancy rate is still at its second highest-ever level
* fewer unpaid carers receiving direct support and fewer people receiving respite care than in 2015/16
£20 million investment
The government announced (15 March) that people in adult social care and unpaid carers will benefit from a £20 million boost [
] to fund innovative projects across the country.
The ‘Accelerating Reform Fund’ will expand community-based care models such as Shared Lives.
This is a service that matches people aged 16 and above with approved carers.
Funding will also develop innovations and digital tools focused on identifying and supporting unpaid carers.
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Training and development
Home care webinar
A reminder that East Sussex, Brighton & Hove Registered Care Association (RCA) is hosting a home care webinar tomorrow, *20 March *from *10:00am* to *11:30am.
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The agenda [
] will include a keynote presentation from CQC on its new approach to regulation.
Register your place on TicketSource [
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Workforce
Migration reforms
Government reforms restrict care workers from bringing family members [
] to the UK are now in force. (11 March)
Care providers are required to register with the Care Quality Commission if they are sponsoring migrants.
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Health and wellbeing
Personal protective equipment
Are you a care provider in East Sussex who could make use of free plastic white aprons, face shields, and/or FFP3 facemasks?
Amy Wilkinson, procurement partner (Health and Social Care), said: “We would like to once again offer to donate and deliver these items to East Sussex located providers for free.
Please be mindful that these will not be urgent deliveries and no deliveries can be made before 22 April, so you should source these items as usual if you require them imminently.”
Please email Amy at amy.wilkinson@eastssusex.gov.uk before *15 April *and let her know:
* what you would like (aprons, face shields, and/or FFP3 facemasks)
* your desired volume of each item (minimum order per item: 3,000 for aprons, 600 for face shields, 150 for FFP3 facemasks)
* the full delivery address
* the name and number of the person managing the delivery
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Have your say
Safety through learning
One of Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) core ambitions is to ensure that the services it regulates have a strong ‘safety and learning’ culture. To ensure CQC takes the best approach to assessing providers on this topic and to make sure it gives providers the best quality information on what ‘good’ looks like, please offer your feedback via this short survey [
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Women’s health and wellbeing services
If you self-identify as a woman, are aged between 40 and 65 and live in East Sussex, this research study [
] would like to hear from you about women’s health and wellbeing services.
How you take part is up to you – in a group of women, one-to-one with a researcher, or online.
There is a £25 high street voucher available for those who participate.
Run by researchers at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, the investigators would also like to interview providers who ‘signpost’ women to care or provide care.
For more information or to register your interest (please send your name and contact details):
Email: kiersten.simmons@nhs.net
Call:
01273 696955 ext.63082
Text: 07955 356974
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Digital social care
Data security and business continuity
*26 March* is the date for a webinar around data security and your business continuity plan.
Organised by the Sussex digital in reach team, it runs from *10:30am* to *11:30am.*
Book your place on Eventbrite [
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