The director provides an overview of the busy winter period for social services and reflects on the successes of the year. Plans are in place to improve integration between health and social care through the Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP). A consultation proposed reconfiguring social care directorates to better serve families, adults, and health. An inspection of a social care provider found their services to be "good".

1. A winter message from Anne Tidmarsh
So here we are again, nearly another year over and where has the year gone? I am sure many of
you are now turning your thoughts to Christmas and are busy with the final preparations, however it
is also that time of year when Social Services gets very busy. We are currently ensuring that there is
sufficient staff cover for the Christmas and New Year period to work with hospitals and the
community to meet the increased demand during the winter months.
It is a good time to reflect upon the year, and the recent Annual Review sets out some of the
successes of the year with case studies on the impact that KCC has had on Kent residents. It also
shows the areas that we still need to improve and focus on during 2017/18. I am particularly
interested in the progress in how health and social care systems work together to deliver high quality
community services.
There has been a lot of activity and talk of Kent’s Sustainability and
Transformation Plan (STP) for Health and Social Care.KCC has supported the
development of this plan alongside our partners. The STP will rapidly deliver a
shared vision for the integration of health and social care services, transforming
the delivery of primary, community and social care with a shared approach to
developing the future health and social care workforce for the county. This is
closely aligned to our vision for adult social care.
You may have seen the communication in late November about the consultation on the Corporate
Director posts regarding the reconfiguration of the Social Care, Health and Wellbeing, and Education
and Young People’s Services directorates. The proposal is to have one directorate focusing on
services to families and young people aged 0-25 and the other on adult social care and health. It is
proposed that DCADLMH will continue to report to the Corporate Director for Adult Social Services.
The consultation has now ended and we expect an update in due course.
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Kent Enablement at Home on the recent CQC
inspection at Kroner House for the Ashford and Shepway team. The overall outcome of the
assessment was ‘good’ with all of the component parts also being assessed as ‘good’. There is a
theme within this month’s newsletter for celebrating the achievements of some of our workforce
events, so on that note I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their hard work and
particularly thank those that will be working over the festive period. I wish you all a very Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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2. Best Wishes
Anne Tidmarsh
Director - Older People and Physical Disability
SCHW News
Adult Services Systems
Group
The ASSG team co-ordinates
work to ensure that business
change, projects, BOXi reports,
changes to AIS/SWIFT and
systems queries are effectively
planned, with resources in
place and prioritised, to deliver
the outcomes. This can relate
to project work from the
Portfolio Management Office
(PMO) or ‘business as usual’
changes. ASSG works with
Performance, ICT, Policy,
Operational Staff, Finance, HR
and Training to achieve these
changes. The team have
started to release a bulletin to
keep us updated with these
changes which is available from
their KNet Page.
Managers - make a note of
these TCP key dates
TCP is now open for you to
enter your team’s ratings until 6
January. Find out more. If you
do not have access to Self
Service, please e-mail us.
Budget overspend – you can
make a difference
We are facing
a forecast
budget
overspend of
£8.3m and every one of us
needs to contribute to making
Your life, your well-being – Transformation
The transformation programme has now reached the end of
assessment. We are looking forward to kicking off the Design
phase in the New Year, and the team is working hard to develop
a plan for this. There were a number of key findings in each part
of the programme from the assessment:
• In OPPD, the team found several opportunities to work
more closely with providers and health partners, as well as
continuing to build partnerships with the voluntary and
community sector.
• In DCALDMH, the team is hoping to explore ways to
ensure that all people are in the right setting to achieve
their outcomes and that their support package will enable
this.
• We identified how Commissioning, Performance and
Purchasing can continue to support these functions as
they adapt in order to deliver the vision.
We will be using these findings to explore and develop new ways
of working, in alignment with the vision, in January. We’ll keep
you updated as this process continues. Thank you for your
support and for giving us your views when we’ve visited your
offices. We look forward to continuing our progress in 2017!
Visit KNet for more information or you can contact the team with
your queries or suggestions.
We’ve listened to your views
Your life, your well-being – a vision and
strategy for adult social care 2016-
2021, sets out how we want adult social
care to be over the next five years. This
month has been an important time in
the development of the strategy, and
we are now close to having the final
version ready.
The draft strategy was out for
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3. savings. Hear from Andy
Wood, Corporate Director of
Finance and Procurement
about why we all need to get
involved.
Think twice before you spend
and see what else you can do
to help. Thank you.
Have you done it?
Information Governance and
Data Protection are mandatory
e-learning modules for all
employees (including
temporary employees) and
need to be completed every
two years. We also need to
complete our Prevent module
so check if you need to update
your training.
Other News
Thank you for taking the time
to give us your views
Over 1,750 of
you took part in
this year’s
annual staff
survey to tell us how you feel
about KCC, your
line manager, team and job
with another 349 completing
the four questions available on
KNet. Thank you to everyone
who took part.
Take a look at the results and
see how your feedback helps
us tackle the things that matter
to you.
Are you up for the challenge?
Sign up for the 8
Week
Workplace
Challenge
starting on Wednesday 4
January. This tool is designed
to help motivate you and your
colleagues to be more active at
consultation between 30 September to 4 November. We held
focus groups with providers, specially targeted sessions with
adults with learning disabilities and older people and received 119
responses to the online survey. We also held two useful focus
groups with adult social care staff – thank you very much to those
who took part. We have carefully analysed the feedback, and
used it to make a number of changes to the strategy. We have
produced a ‘You said, we did’ document to explain what we’ve
changed.
The final strategy has just been to Adult Social Care and Public
Health Cabinet Committee (6 December) and County Council (8
December) for endorsement. It will then be formally adopted and
published on our website – we will let you know when this
happens.
Short Breaks consultation
We have recently undertaken a review for our Short Breaks
provision to make it a more efficient experience for service users.
The review identified that services have seen a significant change
in aspirations of people with disabilities and their families in the
type of adult short breaks they are seeking. Due to the increased
range of Short Break services that individuals are choosing and
the reducing occupancy in our adult KCC accommodation
for Short Breaks, it is clear that we need fewer buildings; however
we need to invest in our remaining adult Short Break buildings to
ensure they are fit for purpose.
We now plan to close the building at Osborne Court in Faversham
and deliver services through other settings. These changes will
not see any reduction in what service users are receiving but
where they will receive these services. We also plan to invest in
improvements to the Southfields site in Ashford. Visit our
consultation page for more details.
Transforming health and social care in Kent
and Medway
The draft Health and Social Care Sustainability and
Transformation Plan (STP) was published on 23 November 2016.
The draft sets out what needs to be done to bring about better
health and wellbeing, better standards of care, and better use of
staff and funds, to meet the changing needs of local people for
decades to come. The STP has been developed jointly with NHS,
social care and public health leaders in Kent and Medway.
It is the first time we have all worked together in this way and it
gives us a unique opportunity to bring positive and genuine
improvement in health and social care delivery over the next five
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4. work. Find out more on KNet.
WISHING YOU ALL A
MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND A HAPPY NEW
YEAR!
years. Working like this will also enable us to make better use of
resources and secure the long-term future of health and care.
Compass recruitment event
Recently staff from Older People and Physical Disability attended
the Compass jobs fair which is the largest social work event in the
UK. The team attended the event to raise the profile of working in
Kent and to identify potential employees to fill current vacancies.
The event enabled people to come together to find out more
about the latest employment, training and career development
opportunities in social work. The team gave a presentation on the
‘storyboard of transformation’ to share good practice and the
experiences in Kent. The day was a success with many people
registering their interest for more information on our careers.
Transformation change portfolio updates are also available for:
0-25 Business Capability Growth, Environment and
Transport
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