Residential Care - A Positive Future

Twenty years after the publication of the Wagner report, Residential Care: A Positive Choice, the sector is, in many ways, unrecognisable. New regulatory structures, patterns of ownership, and changes in the character of those who use residential care are only three factors which have brought with them new challenges.

All this makes much about the sector unpredictable, while personalisation promises to change beyond recognition how social care goes about its work.

This new book ‘Residential Care – A Positive Future’ draws on the experience and knowledge of a range of leading practitioners, policy makers and practitioners, offers new perspectives in looking at future possibilities and attempting to see how challenges can be met.

It also considers the achievements of residential care and its place in a modern system of social care if those who use services are to be offered choice in a meaningful sense.

Chapters covering:

• the achievements of the Wagner report
• the new shape of the market
• residential care for children
• personalisation
• quality of care and life for people with dementia
• a workforce fit for the future
• the quest for outcome standards
• reform and regulation
• commissioning for quality and innovation
• learning from the past   

ISBN No 978-1-900909-06-8
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Care Staffing In Care Homes For Older People

The aim of the publication is to provide a robust and flexible approach to staffing arrangements to meet the specific needs of service users uncluding their levels of dependency. It should help providers of residential care for older people to determine whether sufficient staff are available in a care home to meet the assessed needs of the service users. It also seeks to offer guidance as to what service users, relatives and other interested parties can reasonably expect when considering staffing arrangements.
ISBN 1 900909 04 09
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Care Staffing In Care Homes For Younger Adults

The aim of the publication is to provide a robust and flexible approach to staffing arrangements to meet the specific needs of service users uncluding their levels of dependency. It should help providers of residential care for younger adults to determine whether sufficient staff are available in a care home to meet the assessed needs of the service users. It also seeks to offer guidance as to what service users, relatives and other interested parties can reasonably expect when considering staffing arrangements.
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Creating a Home from Home
A Guide to Standards

"Open any page and under any subject heading the Guide has something practical and balanced to say...I have no hesitation in commending this Guide and I hope it reaches the widest possible audience amongst those interested in improving standards in residential care"
Dame Gillian Wagner
DBE PhD

'Creating a Home from Home is a comprehensive guide to setting standards in all Homes for adults in the UK. It has been produced following extensive consultation with over 100 organisations and individuals. The Guide has been prepared from the perspective of those who need care, and their relatives, and is designed to help service providers, contractors, regulators, users and their families. The Guide offers a fresh approach by focusing on the quality of life for service users. It is not prescriptive, instead it helps identify key components of care which can be analysed against a range of indicators. In addition, the Guide is easy to understand and use. It addresses issues relating to the qualities required by staff and can easily be used as a training tool.
ISBN 1900909 006
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Managing a Home from Home
A Companion Guide to Creating a Home from Home

"I congratulate the Working Party of the Residential Forum which produced this Guide and am sure it will become a key workbook amongst Home managers committed to quality service and the achievement of high standards."
Dame Gillian Wagner
DBE PhD

'Managing a Home from Home' takes as its foundation the system of standard setting described in 'Creating a Home from Home' which focuses on the needs and wishes of people living in care homes.

The Guide takes this work a significant and useful step forward by showing how the standards can be put into practice. It examines each of the standards and describes what issues need to be addressed by managers to ensure they attain high standards in the homes they run.

An introductory chapter leads readers smoothly into the way the rest of the text is organised and explains the links between the Manager's Guide and the Standards Guide; although each can stand alone, the Guides are best used in conjunction. As well as guiding the reader to further sources of information, each of the other chapters has a set of 'review activities' which can be used as an aid for staff training and for refining home management skills.
ISBN 1900909 014
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Training for Social Care
Achieving Standards for the Undervalued Service

"Anyone reading this report will become aware of the real nature and scale of the problems we face in providing adequate training, and the fact that earlier attempts to set up adequate training systems have not succeeded." 
Dame Gillian Wagner
DBE PhD

"Training for Social Care" focuses on the training needs of residential workers but its recommendations need to be seen in the wider context of social care. Many of the points made will apply to all people in residential provision but a separate companion report is under preparation to deal with the training needs of residential child care workers.

This is the third major publication produced by the Residential Forum. The first two, "Creating a Home fmm Home" and "Managing a Home from Home", focused on setting and assessing standards of care and managing a high quality service. "Training for Social Care" follows on from the first two and argues the need for sound training systems to enable the workforce to practise and manage effectively.
ISBN 1900909 022
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