Adult Green Paper:Transforming Adult Social Care

Introduction

As our population ages at an ever increasing rate, the care needs of older people and people with disabilities are rapidly overtaking the public funds available to pay for them.  The Government’s response to this crisis has been to propose radical changes to the current funding system that will entitle all adults with a care need above a particular threshold to claim at least some public funding for care.  The proposed changes have been set out in the recently published Adult Green Paper – the biggest opportunity for policy reform in adult care services for more than 60 years.   

Benefits

Community Care conferences will examine the key issues arising from the publication of the Green Paper.  It will consider future funding plans for adult social care, current regulation of the industry, the need for greater personalization in treatment plans and the options available to younger disabled adults.  More specifically, it will consider:  

• The principal features of the Green Paper and the implications of the paper for Councils
• Funding and budget concerns
• Guidance on customer contributions and charging
• Modernising the workforce to meet the Green Paper’s agenda
• Decision-making and guidance on how to provide service users with greater choice and control while also achieving greater personalisation of services.

Who Should Attend

• Local authority Directors
• Directors of Adult Services
• Policy Managers
• Managers of adult services
• Finance managers for adult services
• Senior practitioners
• Service managers
• Directors of housing
• Adult Protection Officers