Department of Health social care information (document)

This DH 'web resource' portal contains links to the following information:

• The new vision for social care - The new vision for adult social care: results of the SCIE survey and the development of a Green Paper.
• About social care - Background and general information about social care in England.
• Care Quality Commission (CQC) - From April 2009, the regulation of adult social care services transfered to the Care Quality Commission.  Adult social care providers will continue to be regulated under the Care Standards Act 2000 until  2010 when the new registration system for adult social care providers will come into force under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. 
• Direct payments - Direct payments create more flexibility in the provision of social services. Giving money in place of social care services means people have greater choice and control over their lives, and are able to make their own decisions about how care is delivered.
• Local public service agreements - LPSAs are three-year agreements between individual county, metropolitan or unitary councils and the Government. They spell out the council's commitment to improve public services and the Government's commitment to reward improvement, and they set out specific goals to be accomplished in the duration of the agreement.
• Fair access to care - Guidance for councils about who should be eligible for adult social care services.
• Vulnerable adults - The Government is determined that vulnerable adults should be afforded the greatest protection possible from harm. In addition to raising standards of care through National Service Frameworks, regulating providers of care in a more thorough and consistent way than hitherto, and introducing national minimum standards for regulated care services, the Government has taken action to specifically address the abuse of vulnerable adults.
• Single assessment process for older people - The single assessment process, introduced in the NSF for older people, aims to make sure older people's care needs are assessed thoroughly and accurately, but without procedures being needlessly duplicated by different agencies.
• Community equipment services - Guidance and background information.
• Disability inspections - How the Social Services Inspectorate (SSI) inspects local council social care services for disabled adults, and how users and carers can take part.
• Social care best practice - Examples of good practice in social services provision.
• Social care workforce - introduction to the people who make up the workforce, and what the term social care workforce encompasses. Also iInformation on the workforce strategy for adult social care.

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