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Appointments Chief Inspector for Social Care The Care Quality Commission has announced that Andrea Sutcliffe, current CEO of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, will be taking on the role of Chief Inspector of Social Care at CQC. This role is key to implementing CQC’s new vision for inspection and regulation and signals a move to more specialist inspections. Carterwood appointment Social care specialist surveyors Carterwood have appointed Matthew Drysdale as a graduate surveyor in the practice’s growing valuation and consultancy team. NICE appointments Bridget Warr, Chief Executive of UKHCA, has been appointed Chair of the NICE Social Care Guidance Development Group (GDG) for Domiciliary Care. Bill Mumford, CEO of MacIntyre has been appointed nonexecutive director. Livability CEO National disability charity Livability has appointed Dave Webber as its new Chief Executive. Dave has been the charity’s Interim Chief Executive and was previously Director of Operations. SCIE’s Board appointments SCIE has appointed five new Board members Alex Fox, Chief Executive, Shared Lives Plus and Chair, Care Providers Alliance, Mary McKenna, Co-founder and Director, Learning Pool, Terry Moran, retired Civil Servant, former Second Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions, Bev Searle, Director of Corporate Affairs, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Sally Warren, National Director of Programmes, Public Health England.
Your Care Rating expands The deadline for care providers to sign up for the care home survey, Your Care Rating 2013, has closed with the number of participating organisations more than doubling to 30, covering over
60,000 residents in 1,600 care homes. Your Care Rating is a survey of care home residents designed to promote quality improvement and help those choosing care homes. The 2013 survey will be carried
out in September and October by market research company, Ipsos-Mori, who will also analyse the results before they are published by participating care homes in December 2013.
Cavendish Review All healthcare assistants and social care support workers should undergo the same basic training, based on the best practice that already exists in the system, and must get a standard Certificate of Fundamental Care before they can care for people unsupervised, according to a new independent report. The Cavendish Review, carried out in the wake of the Francis Inquiry into Mid-Staffordshire
NHS Foundation Trust, makes a number of recommendations on how the training and support of healthcare assistants and social care support workers employed in care homes and people’s own homes can be strengthened to ensure they provide care to the highest standard. The Cavendish Review acknowledges that some ‘excellent and skilled’ care and support is taking
Homecare innovation challenge Norman Lamb MP, Care Services Minister has launched the Homecare Innovation Challenge. Providers and commissioners are being encouraged to share best
practice. The Minister wants to use the Challenge to improve homecare services and the status of homecare workers. See Business Clinic on page 26.
SfC Accolades - nominate now Don’t forget there’s still time to nominate someone in the Skills for Care Accolades for 2013/14. The Accolades provide an opportunity to celebrate the best in workforce development in adult social care. Entering the Accolades gives providers the chance to recognise the great work they do in the sector and also to share best practice across the sector and Skills for Care learns about the innovative and important work being done across England. There are eight categories: Best employer of under 250 staff, Best employer of over 250 staff, Best individual employer
who employs their own care staff, Best provider of learning and development, Best employer support for Apprenticeships, Best employer support for the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment, Best recruitment initiatives and Most effective new approach to service delivery. Nominations close on 5th September and the awards ceremony will be held on Thursday 27th March at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. For more information on how to nominate visit www. skillsforcare.org.uk. CMM is a proud sponsor of the 2013/14 Accolades.
place, often under difficult circumstances, and that her report has been informed by learning from, and building upon, the best examples. Nevertheless, the reason for this review is the worrying evidence of poor care practices. The Government will provide a formal response to the Review, along with its response to the Francis Report, in the autumn.
Associations to merge The English Community Care Association and National Care Association intend to merge into a new body, Care England, from 1st January 2014. Chairs, Nadra Ahmed OBE and Jane Ashcroft, said, ‘Our sector faces a period of considerable challenge which will require robust representation on behalf of our membership. For some time now, our two organisations have been working together so it felt like the natural next step in our relationship. We believe that combining the two strong and respected organisations will strengthen the voice of health and social care and give our membership a wider range of services.’ Chief Executives, Sheila Scott OBE and Professor Martin Green OBE, said, ‘We welcome the opportunity to bring the wealth of experience of these two organisations under one banner, and to work together to make Care England strong and vibrant as well as a one-stop-shop for providers, to support them in delivering a quality service.’
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