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Professor Martin Green, OBE, the Chief Executive of the English Community Care Association, addresses the evolving landscape of social care at the North West Care Show on April 17, 2013. He outlines the essential need for change in a fragmented system burdened by funding cuts and dependency models. Highlighting a transformative vision, he discusses pathways from crisis to wellbeing, dependence to independence, and isolation to community engagement. The talk emphasizes integration across housing, health, and social care and the importance of quality in funding, outcomes, and workforce development.
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Professor Martin Green OBEChief Executive ECCA What is the future for Social Care ? North West Care Show - 17th April 2013
English Community Care Association • Largest representative body in the care sector • Over 6,200 care services • 0.5 million service users • Working on behalf of small, medium and large providers • Charities/corporates/independents
The Need for Change • Fragmented services • Cuts to health and social care • Dependency based system • Cliff edge, means-tested funding • Variable services • Poor commissioning for budgets not need • Lack of consumer choice
A new vision for care and support • From crisis to wellbeing • From state to individual needs • From dependency to independence • From receiver to contributor • From disability to re-ablement • From separation to integration • From ignorant to informed consumer • From isolation to community action
Opportunities and Challenges • Developing the market: integration of housing, health and social care • Creative approaches: holding values and developing services • Mixed business models • Partnerships: charity/private/social enterprise • Diversification/responding to need • Development of sub-acute services • Hubs of expertise and involvement • Efficiencies and outcomes
The system must respond by: • Developing a long term funding system • Building a system on quality not cost • Integrating health and social care • Developing outcome measures • Offer direct payments for all services • Understand the true costs of care • Value and reward quality • Reduce bureaucracy • Develop and pay the workforce
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