ARC England has withdrawn from the CQC Single Assessment Framework Review - please see our full statement below and our Vision Statement for the Future of Social Care Regulation https://wp.me/p9ih3D-8SR Background: In September 2024, ARC England, as a member of the Care Provider Alliance (CPA), was invited to participate in a review of the Care Quality Commission's (CQC) Single Assessment Framework (SAF). On behalf of our membership we committed to support this project, with the understanding that the input of our 100 learning disability and autism provider members would inform Sir Mike Richards’s comprehensive SAF review. Key Issue: On October 15th, we discovered that Sir Mike Richards had already published his report, despite the CPA project not being due for completion until December. The Richards' report indicated that consultations had already taken place with certain membership bodies, yet ARC England’s views were not included. Concerns: 1. ARC England’s members were unable to influence the Richards report, contrary to what we were led to believe 2. This situation has further damaged CQC's already low credibility within the sector 3. The CQC appears to have misrepresented their intentions regarding genuine provider consultation Decision: Given these circumstances and the documented failures outlined in both Dr Penny Dash's and Sir Mike Richards' reports, ARC England is withdrawing from the SAF review project to better serve our members' interests. "Once in a lifetime reset” We believe the CQC should suspend its operations until it can demonstrate genuine commitment to following through on its stated intentions and consultative processes. Furthermore, we have published the ARC England Vision Statement for the Future of Social Care Regulation with a more detailed set of organisational principles which include: Suggested organisational principles A just culture that values: 1. Transparency 2. Collaborative working 3. Quality assurance that enables choice and control 4. Recognising purpose and belonging 5. Establishing mutual expectations
ARC; Association for Real Change
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Association for Real Change is a leading umbrella body representing service providers in the learning disability sector
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ARC (Association for Real Change) is a membership organisation, which supports providers of services to people with a learning disability. We provide a range of services such as high quality information, networking opportunities, qualifications, training, publications and Disclosure checks. ARC is committed to promoting best practice within the learning disability sector and we work with others such as the Department of Health, Skills for Care, and Big Lottery Fund through a range of projects. ARC works in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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This is a very helpful post on engaging with government to get your issues heard. #learningdisability #autism #socialcare
Scottish Labour and Co-operative MP for Midlothian and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland.
Now that I’ve been doing this new ministerial role for a wee while I thought it might be helpful to share some thinking about how to get heard by ministers (or at the very least by this minister). You are the expert! If I’ve come to see you or we’re having a meeting in the department then by definition it’s because you have something to teach me. You don’t need a fancy title to be an expert - if you’ve experienced something I haven’t it’s a privilege to hear your perspective. And if you’re not used to seeing people who look or sound like you being treated as experts that’s on us to sort out, not on you to try to ‘fit in’. We need to do things differently if we want (and I do) different people to be heard. I’m already sold. If I’ve decided to meet with you I already know the relevance of your organisation or your cause - please don’t feel you have to spend time selling it to me. Focus our time together on something you think I don’t know or don’t understand but need to. Frontline first. If I’m learning about the needs and interests of apprentices, survivors of domestic abuse, farmers or people in recovery it’s best to hear it on the shop floor, in a DA service, in a field or in a community centre. I work for you - I’m happy to come and see you if timings allow. People at the heart. What does the thing you are proposing actually mean for people? Can you point to a company that can’t grow or export because of the specific barrier you are talking about? How would an individual family benefit from the changes you are proposing? Illustrative examples really help. Please also tell me about yourself - what brought you to this kind of work? What keeps you going when it’s hard? This is a mission-led government. Mission-led government doesn’t, though, just mean working on different priorities, it means working differently full stop. Think of it as being less about us sitting on opposite sides of a rectangular table and more about all of us sitting around a circular one, looking at the same information and issue. Our conversations should be creative problem-solving ones where we work out who does what to move things forward - let’s not have meetings where we just each say our talking points that we’re reading from a briefing or annual report. All of which said, if you’re wondering who reads bumf, it’s me! In my previous lives I’ve worked with a lot of policy researchers and once a wonk, always a wonk. Your research and content is likely to be the sort of thing I seek out in my own time anyway so please do suggest the key things you’d really like me to read, watch or listen to. And finally we have just published the division of ministerial responsibilities in the Scotland Office. Please feel free to contact me about any of these policy areas or any of the areas that are personal priorities in here. https://lnkd.in/em_JXq7g
Kirsty McNeill MP
gov.uk
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They did it! The amazing MacIntyre Dying To Talk team scooped not one but two awards at the Palliative and End of Life Care Awards! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Award-winning Content Creator; Author of D4Dementia; Consultant; Campaigner & Speaker; Trainer & Mentor. Specialising in Ageing, Health & Social Care. Former Carer. *Winner: Outstanding Contribution to Dementia Care*
So this happened last night… We only went & won The Workforce Development Award & The Bereavement Support Award for our MacIntyre & ARC; Association for Real Change Loss and Bereavement Training. Wonderful to be part of this team with Nicola Payne & Jess (& Cuddles!). Thank you #PalliativeCareAwards Care Talk Magazine Lisa Carr Kirsty Hollins Truly co-designed, co-delivered training must be the future in #health & #socialcare. Cc: Liz Collins
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ARC; Association for Real Change reposted this
The detention of autistic people and people with a learning disability in locked settings is a national scandal. As we approach the #GeneralElection we have gathered a snapshot of activity and actions. All parties agree that more needs to be done to build the right support so people are not unnecessarily detained against their will. But we need more than agreement. We need action in the first 100 days of the next parliament, if this injustice is to end. Please share with your networks if you agree. https://lnkd.in/eTJe88rB
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We had the most amazing time at our Creativity in Care event yesterday at the wonderful Bridge Conference Centre in Leeds! Our speakers and performers Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE, DanceSyndrome, Michelle Rebello from Dimensions, Henshaws, Age Exchange from Community Integrated Care and Dave Barras at Positive Support For You and Liz Croot and team from EQUALD at The University of Sheffield just blew us away with their sessions. All the wonderful attendees threw themselves into creating and dancing and making new friends and connections with such energy 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you everyone! ❤️❤️❤️ The Care Provider Alliance Victoria Buyer Annie Waddington-Feather
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We are thrilled to be partnering with ethical procurement specialists Marr Procurement Limited as the sponsor of our Creativity in Care event in Leeds, May 14th 2024. Find out more and book your tickets: https://bit.ly/49DArfK
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We are thrilled to be partnering with ethical procurement specialists Marr Procurement Limited as the sponsor of our Creativity in Care event in Leeds, May 14th 2024. Find out more and book your tickets: https://bit.ly/49DArfK
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🎉Have you got your tickets for our 'unconference' yet?🎉 Join us on 14th May 2024 in Leeds to celebrate and explore creativity in learning disability and autism services - not just artistic creativity, but problem-solving, idea-generating, mood-lifting and motivation-boosting creativity! If you support people with learning disabilities and autistic people, you will want to hear from our amazing speakers Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE and Dimensions creativity maestro Michelle Rebello, plus see the incredible DanceSyndrome in action and find out how their creative process works. Tickets: https://bit.ly/49DArfK All welcome: Every ticket include a FREE place for someone you support. All the info: https://lnkd.in/eFk3T3dz
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Our new Fee Rate Maps showing 2023-24 data from local authorities in England & Wales launch today. 📣 We're calling for a 12% uplift to meet 2023 budget costs including the National Living Wage rise. However, that doesn't address the year-on-year shortfall in funding. How much is your LA paying providers for #learningdisability & #autism services? You can search fee rate data by constituency too - please use it make your MP aware of the chronic underfunding in learning disability social care. https://bit.ly/4crHSbZ
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What's different about our Leadership Support and Development Programme with starting in April 2024 with My Home Life England? - It's specifically for leaders and managers in learning disability and autism support services - 99% of care leaders who studied with My Home Life England said their understanding of how to improve the culture of care in their setting had improved - 98% of care leaders said the quality of their management and leadership had increased. If you've got some unspent 2023-24 training budget, we can invoice you in two parts to make your money go further. We're developing the social care leaders of tomorrow - find out how your staff can be among them: https://lnkd.in/ez-wbRme
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