Do you feel ready to cope with changes that come into force in April 2015 with the Care Act & the Care Certificate? The Care Act represents the most significant reform of care and support in more than 60 years. Achievement of the Care Certificate should ensure that the healthcare support worker has the required values, behaviours, competences and skills to provide high quality, compassionate care. With the clock ticking, our Adult Social Care Suite can help you prepare. Join Social Care SME Jill Thorburn’s webinar to learn: - how to communicate the major changes to your team - what the 14 specific Care Certificate modules cover - how Health & Social Care Staff can access this learning on the go

1. Key tools to get you ready
for the new Care Act
Deborah Limb
Jill Thorburn

2. Meet Deborah Limb
Deborah and her team work
with customers every day to
help them deliver great
learning that drives
performance improvement in
their organisations.

3. Meet Jill Thorburn
Leading Subject Matter Expert
on Learning Pool’s
Social Care Subscription

4. • Built using responsive design
• Customisable in the content builder
• Free to existing Social Care
subscribers
Why is Care Act training from Learning Pool different?

5. Why has the Care Act
been introduced?

6. • Response to Francis Inquiry & Mid Staffordshire events
• Increase transparency and openness
• Drive up the quality of care
• Much more understandable

7. What does the Care Act place emphasis on?
• preventing dependency
• promoting independence
• integration of services and between health and social
care
• building the capacity of communities to care for
themselves

8. Vision of the Care Act
• the prevention disability and the maintenance of independence
• the importance of choice, control and dignity
• enabling those who use social care services to realise their potential and
to participate in society on the same basis as every other citizen
• for individuals receiving support the right to live a fulfilling life

9. Over a period of time with the
majority of changes taking
place this April, with the
reform of funding taking effect
from April 2016
Implementation
of the
Care Act

10. The Care Act is broken down into 5 parts (or chapters) plus 8
schedules.
The Parts of the Act are:
Part 1 (Clauses 1 - 80): Care and Support
Part 2 (Clauses 81 - 95): Care Standards
Part 3 (Clauses 96 – 120): Health
Part 4 (Clauses 121 – 122): Health and Social Care
Part 5 (Clauses 123 – 129): General

11. • Take on new functions
• Embed the changes within
their teams
• Duties come into effect in
two changes
What’s the
Impact on Local
Authorities?

12. The first Learning Pool course covers
• The origins of the Care Act
• The purpose of the Act
• Fundamental changes
And much more….

13. The second Learning Pool course covers
• Assessing individuals &
carers
• Eligible needs and how
these are assessed
• Care planning
And much more….

14. What are the implications for local
authorities and Social Care
professionals?

15. • Personal budgets
• Carers rights
• Minimum eligibility criteria
• New assessment framework
• Prevention agenda

16. • Provide info to everyone in their area
• Adult safeguarding placed on a statutory footing
• Bring about more choice
• Funding reforms

17. The Act provides for parents and other
carers of disabled children
approaching adulthood to be assessed
for support from adult social care too.

18. What are the challenges faced by local
authorities and others in
implementing the Care Act?

19. • Various existing Acts will be replaced by the Care Act 2014
• New general duty for local to ‘promote of individual
wellbeing’
• Expect a rise in demand for assessments
• Change of culture

20. The provision of care
and support must be
a person centred and
a user led activity

21. Numbers of local
authorities are
linking up together to
share practice and
knowledge

22. Learning Pool are producing 14 modules to replace
Common Induction Standards and National Minimum
Training Standards.
Care Certificate content

23. Why has the Care Certificate been
introduced now?

24. The Care Certificate should help to ensure that the
practitioners have the required values, behaviours,
competences and skills to provide high quality, compassionate
care.
It will be introduced in March 2015.

25. The Care
Certificate
Standards
14 modules including :
• Understand Your Role
• Your Personal Development
• Duty of Care
• Equality and Diversity

26. What are the implications for the rest
of our Social Care content?

27. • Work taking place to ensure that all the adult social care
courses are fully up to date following the implementation of
the Act
• We currently have 60 courses in our social care suite
• All of these courses will have been reviewed and updated by
the first of April

30. Thank you!
1. Short survey when the Learning Hour closes
2. A link to a recording of this webinar will be hitting your
inbox
3. Continue the conversation on www.learningpool.com or
email lisa@learningpool.com for further details