Social Care Wales: What should our improvement priorities be?

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Social Care Wales: What should our improvement priorities be?
Who are Social Care Wales?

From April 2017, the Care Council for Wales will be reconstituted as Social Care Wales and will gain a new function in leading and driving improvement across the whole of the social care sector. Welsh Government has asked SSIA to work with the Care Council for Wales and stakeholders across the social care sector to identify key initial priorities for improvement for Social Care Wales. Work has already been done to identify what the early priorities need to be. We are now looking to explore in greater detail how Social Care Wales will take a lead role in these areas, driving forward change and improvement.

There are a number of key principles underpinning Social Care Wales that need to be considered when looking at the kind of work we will be doing

o Improving wellbeing
o Outcome focussed
o Focussing on the evidence
o Supporting and challenging service providers and service commissioners
o Listening to the citizen
o Championing the social care sector

What do we want to know?

There are three key areas where we will be focussing improvement. These are:

- Dementia
- Looked after children
- Domiciliary (Home) Care

We also want to know if there are any other priorities we should be focussing on.

Questions

What should Social Care Wales be doing to lead improvement in these areas?
What needs to improve so that the citizen has a greater voice in improvements in social care?
Are there any other areas that Social Care Wales should focus on in the first few years?

We are keen to have input directly from people who use services and their carers If anyone is holding any meetings or running any local support or engagement groups with people who use services and their carers over the next 2 weeks, could you please consider asking the questions above and on the attached sheet. The particular focus is on dementia, looked after children and domiciliary care but we’d also like to hear if there are other priorities that Social Care Wales needs to address.

Please send any responses to rebecca.cicero@wlga.org.uk by Tuesday 5 July 2016