CIPFA’s Social Care and Children’s Services Panel present a new concept for this conference. Both adult social care finance and children’s services finance teams will have their own areas of policy and development catered for as two steams are offered over this two-day event. By bringing the audience together for the opening and closing sessions, as well as all social breaks, the areas of shared interest and networking can be fully explored, while the separate sessions allow each ‘stream’ to focus on area-specific topics for the rest of the programme. Delegates are free to chose which ever sessions they find most appropriate or interesting, can ‘mix and match’ sessions, and need not remain within their own ‘sector’.
| Course Programme |
| 09.15 |
Registration, coffee & exhibition |
| 10.15 |
Chairman’s Introduction & Welcome: Richard Harbord
- the concept for this year’s conference, how the dual programmes work and are complimented by the joint sessions
All Delegates
An Overview of both the Adult and Children’s Services Agendas |
| 10.30 |
Speaker: John Beer, ADASS Honorary Secretary and Executive Director of Health and Social Care, Southampton City Council
- the future for the management and funding of services for adults
- current pressures and future issues: with rising costs to local authorities, will there be ever-tighter eligibility criteria and how will service provision keep pace with growing demand?
- making sure that links – formal and informal – with children’s services colleagues remain strong and open
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| 11.00 |
Speaker: Clive Webster, Head of Children’s Services, Southampton City Council
- current issues in the development, commissioning, leadership and management of children’s services
- financial management and funding issues
- retaining the partnerships with adult care colleagues while forging the new statutory directors of children’s services roles
- the demographic time-bomb
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| 11.30-11.45 |
Coffee |
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Adult Social Care Delegates |
| 11.45 |
Transforming Social Care: The Vision
- continuing the development of a personalised approach to delivering adult social care
- how the Department of Health and other sector leaders propose to support councils and help them to deliver this agenda
- helping council’s to redesign their financial systems: looking at the Social Care Reform Grant Determination and how the new ring-fenced grant will be of help
Speaker: John Bolton, Director of Strategic Finance, Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships, Department of Health |
| 12.15 |
Transforming Social Care: The Delivery
- making the Transforming Social Care agenda work in an authority
- weaving the policy strands together to create an effective and coherent strategy on the ground
- concerns at delivery-level about making the financial systems work and developing coping strategies for these pressures
Speaker: Caroline Highwood, Kent CC |
| 1.00 |
Lunch |
| 2.00 |
Self-Directed Support
- Personal Budgets and Direct Payments
- widening the range of contracts offered by local authorities
- the future of commissioning
Speaker: Simon Stockton, Independent Consultant |
| 2.45 |
Making Individual Budgets Work: a local authority perspective
- how is this working in pilot site, Manchester City Council?
- aiding clients through the process
- managing the financial impacts for the authority
- how is it working out? client benefits and service issues for the authority
Speaker: Carol Culley, Manchester CC
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| 3.30 |
Tea |
Children’s Services Delegates |
| 11.45 |
Children’s Trusts
- strengthening and re-defining their roles
- how are we doing? joining up roles, reducing the number of assessments through the Common Assessment Framework, and carrying out joint planning
- financial issues for Children’s Trusts
Speaker: Alison Jeffery, Children’s Trust Manager, East Sussex County Council |
| 12.15 |
Care Matters: Time for Change
- working with local delivery partners to improve the outlook for looked-after children in care
- looking ahead: ‘Beyond Care Matters, the future of care population’, trends, outlooks and future models
- making the financial model work for local authority partners
Speaker:– tbc |
| 1.00 |
Lunch |
| 2.00 |
Foster Care – Payment for Skills
- Levels Allowance payments systems
- training and monitoring
- financial implications for local authority budgets
Speaker: Pat Stansfield, Head of Protective Services, Barnsley MBC, |
| 2.45 |
Asylum
- the children of asylum-seekers
- asylum-seeking children – accompanied and unaccompanied
- system and financial pressures for local authorities to contend with
- national strategies?
Speaker: Dave Newell, Policy Officer, West Midlands Consortium for Asylum and Refugee Support (WMCARS) |
| 3.30 |
Tea |
| 4.00 |
All Delegates |
| 4.00 |
Managing Area Based Grants
- the transition from the previous ring-fenced grant system to the new non ring-fenced Area Based Grant
- how are authorities going to manage finance that was previously committed to a specific service, under the new arrangements?
Speaker Roger Mortimore, Independent Consultant |
| 4.45 |
Round-up of the day by both Chairs |
| 5.00 |
close of Day One |
| 7.00 |
Drinks |
| 7.30 |
Conference dinner; after-dinner remarks – Richard Harbord |
Day Two |
| 9.00 |
Registration, Coffee |
Adult Social Care Delegates |
| 9.30 |
Pooled Budgets In Adult Service Provision
- budget pooling arrangements between local authorities and other partners, in particular with organisations in the NHS, for the provision of services to adults
- prospects for including NHS funds in the pooled income streams that make up individual care budgets
Speaker: Noel Plumridge, Independent Consultant |
| 10.15 |
Performance Monitoring and Management in Local Area Agreements
- data collection issues: IT business intelligence to help monitor activity in health, housing and social care
- distributing performance information across the partnership
- challenging and verifying performance through information gathering and sharing
- accountability to local community bodies and to central government; responding to the information needs of both
Speaker: - tbc |
| 11.00 |
coffee |
Children’s Services Delegates |
| 9.30 |
Partnership and Pooled Budgets in Children’s Services
- budget pooling arrangements in children’s services authorities and arrangements with other partners, in particular with organisations in the NHS, for the provision of services for children and young people
Speaker Roger Mortimore, Independent Consultant |
| 10.15 |
Integrated Commissioning for Children’s Services
- working towards simple commissioning frameworks for children’s services authorities
- navigating the complex financial, budget-holder led, model
- building in flexibility and monitoring systems
Speaker: Judith Smyth, Principal, Public Governance, OPM |
| 11.00 |
coffee |
| 11.30 |
All Delegates |
| 11.30 |
When is a Child not a Child?
- managing the funding gap: transition financing issues
- strengthening the role for Children’s trusts in overseeing transition
- looked-after children as they approach 18
- transferring funding for age 16 – 19 education from Learning and Skills Councils to local authorities
Speaker: - tbc |
| 12.00 |
Closing Session -The SUMO Guide to Success
- The SUMO guide to succeeding in a changing world
Speaker: Paul McGee |
| 1.00 |
Close; lunch & departure |
