Guidance on direct payments for community care, services for carers and children's services: England 2009 (4th September 2009)
The aim of this guidance is to assist local councils in making direct payments. Together with the Annexes, it also provides guidance on how local councils might manage and administer direct payments. It replaces ‘Direct payments guidance: community care, services for carers and children’s services (Direct Payments) guidance’ issued in 2003. The guidance has been updated to reflect recent legislative changes that extend direct payments to previously excluded groups. An impact assessment and equality impact assessment have been carried out.
Guidance
The aim of this guidance is to assist local councils in making direct payments. Together with the Annexes, it also provides guidance on how local councils might manage and administer direct payments. It replaces ‘Direct payments guidance: community care, services for carers and children’s services (Direct Payments) guidance’ issued in 2003. The guidance has been updated to reflect recent legislative changes that extend direct payments to previously excluded groups. An impact assessment and equality impact assessment have been carried out.
Guidance
Taking forward the role of council regulators (10th September 2009)
This section of the Improvement & Development Agency (IDeA) website aims to facilitate a greater contribution by local authority regulatory services (LARS) to the health of communities they service.
The section includes 6 case studies:
This section of the Improvement & Development Agency (IDeA) website aims to facilitate a greater contribution by local authority regulatory services (LARS) to the health of communities they service.
The section includes 6 case studies:
- setting up a new post of a health and wellbeing co-ordinator
- development of an integrated impact assessment and the setting up of a health 'peer challenge' system
- looks at the way NHS National Service Frameworks have been used within a council to develop a health improvement statement and joint training
- discusses the work of a council's health improvement management group
- setting up of a non-profit social enterprise company to extend a council's regulatory services beyond enforcement to include health advice and promotion, including acting as the national lead on shisha smoking
- looks at the work of a council's licensing and food standards staff in screening for sexually transmitted diseases and promoting health eating in food outlets.
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