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Achieving integrated care: 15 best practice actions COVER

Achieving integrated care: 15 best practice actions

The LGA and the Social Care Institute for Excellence have joined up to produce an accessible and practical resource that supports local systems in fulfilling their ambition of integration.

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Adding extra years to life and extra life to those years: local government guide to healthy ageing

The population is ageing. Over the last 10 years the number of people aged over 65 in England increased by a fifth – that’s nearly 1.7 million extra older people.

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Adult Safeguarding and Homelessness: a briefing on positive practice COVER

Adult safeguarding and homelessness: a briefing on positive practice

The purpose of this briefing is to assist senior leaders, such as members of Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs), as well as commissioners, practitioners and operational managers who are working across relevant sectors and agencies in this field, to support people who are homeless and at risk of or experiencing abuse or neglect.

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Adult social care funding and integration survey research report July 2018 COVER

Adult social care funding and integration survey research report July 2018

The adult social care funding and integration survey was conducted by the Local Government Association’s (LGA) Research and Information Team

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Adult social care funding: 2016 state of the nation report

Adult social care is an absolutely vital public service that supports some of our most vulnerable people and promotes the wellbeing and independence of many more.

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Adult Social Care Funding - State of the Nation

Adult social care funding: State of the nation - October 2017

For adult social care to thrive we need Government to act both for the here and now, and for the longer-term.

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Adult social care risk assessment offer COVER

Adult social care risk awareness self assessment tool

We recommend regions continue to develop and integrate this approach with local sector-led improvement tools and that consideration is given to completing the self-assessment as part of a collaborative process with corporate colleagues.

Adult social care risk self-assessment workshop and action planning COVER

Adult social care risk self-assessment workshop and action planning

Building on positive feedback from the sector, the LGA commissioned a refresh of the risk awareness self-assessment tool in 2016; and is now offering councils (and system partners) the option of an external, independently facilitated workshop to undertake the self-assessment along with local senior system leaders.

Ageing – the silver lining: The opportunities and challenges of an ageing society for local government

This sets out the increasing contribution to society and the economy older people can make through empowered local government and challenges the commonly-held belief that an ageing population is a burden.

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An effective custodian of the public’s health:  A collection of essays on six years of public health in local government COVER

An effective custodian of the public’s health

A collection of essays on six years of public health in local government

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