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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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Analysis of Safeguarding Adult Reviews: April 2017 - March 2019 COVER

Analysis of Safeguarding Adult Reviews: April 2017 - March 2019

This report was commissioned by the sector-led Care and Health Improvement Programme (CHIP), co-produced and delivered by the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) in England.

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Briefing on working with risk for Safeguarding Adults Boards COVER

Briefing on working with risk for Safeguarding Adults Boards

This briefing paper is based on work at two LGA/ Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) workshops in April/May 2018 on working with risk in the context of Making Safeguarding Personal.

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Care and Health Improvement Programme Efficiency project COVER

Care and Health Improvement Programme Efficiency project

Examples of efficiencies in adult social care budgets

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Care and Health Improvement Programme: Integration support offer for health and care system leaders

Our support spans every step of the journey towards developing a fully integrated health and care system.

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Care and support and homelessness: Top tips on the role of adult social care

These top tips, developed as part of the LGA and ADASS’s work with the Shared Outcomes Fund, seeks to support directors of adult social services and their teams, focusing on the role of social care in supporting people experiencing and recovering from homelessness.

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Care providers and the Mental Capacity Act 2005

The LGA, NHS England and the Care Provider Alliance (CPA) have published this briefing paper for members of care providers' boards. This is aimed at supporting providers to apply the MCA in the right way and to help ensure that the legal rights of those who may lack capacity are upheld and that the individual is at the heart of decision-making.   

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Closed cultures in social care: Guidance and questions to ask

'Closed cultures' have been identified as a major risk to the wellbeing and human rights of people with care and support needs, who are unable to protect themselves from abuse or neglect, due to their care and support needs. The aim of this document is to provide guidance for the council workforce on identifying where a ‘closed culture’ may exist, or there may be a risk of one developing, in social care services for people with a learning disability and autistic people.

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Combating loneliness

A guide for local authorities

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Community health and care discharge and crisis care model: an investment in reablement

Supporting people at home (the ethos of Home First from hospital) and discharge to assess are approaches promoted through the COVID-19 Hospital Discharge Requirements first published in March 2020.

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