Transcript What is Quality Assurance?

Promoting a sustainable system of
self directed support
Taking the temperature
Is this about choice and control
or just about saving money?
Some other Questions?
- Can self directed support be
both efficient and effective?
- Can I get more of the life and
support I want by directing my
own support?
Self – directed support
Genuine choice
Cuts in disguise
Supported self assessment leading
to indicative entitlement
This is all you can get….
Support plan showing paid and
unpaid resources
You need to buy from the services
on our list……..
Flexibility of spend – getting a life
not just a service
You can only buy hours of support..
Access to support systems and
structures
Go away and do it yourself…
Different mechanisms to be in
control
Get your services organised or take
a direct payment….
Self directed
support
strategy for
Scotland and
self-directed
support
(Scotland) Bill
National
A varied picture across Scotland
Funding to support implementation
Capacity
Innovation
Self directed support
- is fundamentally about a shift of
power
- requires cultural change
- is a significant change
- takes into account people’s real
wealth
Self directed support:
- ‘the system through which disabled
people can get the life and support
they want. It is an active process
rather than something people are
given’.
‘I direct my own support……’
‘ Self-directed support (SDS) allows people
to choose how their support is provided to
them by giving them as much control over
the individual budget spent on their
support. In other words, SDS is the
support a person purchases or arranges to
meet agreed health and social care
outcomes’
A direct payment:
‘A cash payment someone can get and
manage instead of having the services or
support arranged or provided by Social
Work’
More about self directed support. It’s about:
-
people having choice and control
exercising rights and taking responsibility
getting the life and support you want
an active rather than a passive process
people achieving the outcomes they want
Self directed support strategy
and bill – duty of council
Identifies 4 different options:
-
Direct payment
Individual Service Fund
Arranged services
Mixture of above
Agile providers will
prosper?
Implications for Providers
• Things wont stay the same -change will happen
at a different pace in different places; the future
is unwritten
• Needs increased organisational flexibility and
agility
• There are new opportunities….direct
relationships, new partnerships, new services
• and threats….less organisational control, doing
more with less
The jigsaw of change
Some interesting quotes:
• It’s about getting a life not just a service’
• ‘My plan is working very well and I am
enjoying the flexibility of it and being able
to decide when and what I want’
• ‘Being in receipt of In Control money has
given us a life again’
• ‘your only limit is your imagination’