Eastern
Following launch events in February and March for Greater London, South East and Eastern regions, CSED have engaged over 20 regional councils in a series of initial visits to review their completed diagnostic data and the comparative benchmarking to identify opportunities in the assessment and care management process.
A number of consistent areas of interest and themes have emerged and CSED is now setting up follow-up meetings to support councils in developing these opportunities further and prioritising them alongside their other initiatives prior to selecting those to move onto business case development.
Key areas of interest and themes in the regions are:
- Customer Enquiry Management
- Access Management
- Effective Financial Assessment
- Better Brokerage
- Better Buying
- Reducing Costs of Client Contributions
- Blue Badge processes
In July we launched the first of the cluster days, where councils interested in particular initiatives are brought together in small working groups to develop capacity for implementation.
CSED are engaged on implementation with all nine of the ADASS regions in England.
Councils throughout England are now receiving regional support for implementation of the full suite of the CSED's interdependent, interlinked initiatives, tools and workstreams designed to deliver end to end solutions for sustainable efficiency improvements.
The CSED offer now includes:
- The collaboratively developed "To-Be" process for efficient and effective Assessment and Care Management
- A set of nine easy to implement Initiatives with "quick win" components designed to release speedy savings
- Solutions for improvements around council Demand Forecasting and capacity planning including
- The highly regarded POPPI (Projecting Older People Population Information) web based tool
- Tools to develop enhanced procurement and commissioning strategies for Better Buying including
- The TRACS database tool to assist councils with spend analysis and contract rationalisation
- Generic project skills for the development of new and existing Homecare Re-ablement schemes
- Structured, evidence based research and support for sites who have decide to implement an Electronic Monitoring system