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ITEM EX11(ii)
Final Review
Report - The Cost of Agency Care Workers.
At
their meeting on 27 October 2004, members of the Social & Health Care
Scrutiny Committee agreed to submit the final review report on The Cost
of Agency Care Workers to the Executive, subject to a number of amendments,
together with:
- A copy of the
speech on Direct Payments from Janet Mace; to be accompanied
by
- a note of the
comments made by the Head of Social Care for Adults, in response to
Janet Mace’s speech (listed below):
- the Council had
targets for increasing the take-up of Direct Payments in their Plans.
These targets had already been achieved, then re-set;
- officers were
working with some Local Authorities who were performing much better
on Direct Payments to see how this Council could further increase their
take-up;
- every Care Manager
was now attending mandatory training on Direct Payments;
- some clients did
go to agencies to purchase care. Agencies needed to take this on board
and sell their services directly to users;
- officers were
looking to ensure that there was not too much resource in block contracts
and that resource was not tied into them; and
- the Council would
shortly be entering a new tender round during the next 2 – 3 months
for the Home Support Service and would pay due regard to ensure flexibility.
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