SSRG Previous Events - 2003
Developments in Performance Assessment: 28 November 2003
The Banqueting Suite
The Council House
Victoria Square
Birmingham
SSRG launched a revised edition of the PAF guidance (a constructive critique
of all the PAF PIs) shortly before the department of Health published the
PAF results and tables for all councils in England. The event looked at strengths
and weaknesses of the PI set and how DoH is consulting with councils to review
the PAF dataset and discussed progress to date.
Click here for the programme/booking
form for Developments in Performance Assessment
Papers referred to by Peter Steele at SSRG event 'Developments in Performance
Assessment' on Friday 28th November. Developments on Performance Assessment:
Comments Invited on two Papers
See SSRG PAF pages
for more details.
SSRG Scotland: Performance Indicators and Performance Assessment:
27 October 2003
Peformance Indictors and Performance Assessment: improving services for
older people in Scotland.
Old Viewforth
Stirling
Provided an overview of key issues in relation to Performance Assessment
in Scotland including current work, developments and areas of good practice.
The event also considered responses to the recent
Joint Future Unit consultation on performance assessment
that ended on 26 September.
Presentations
- Performance Assessment in England - Andrew Kerslake, Director, Institute of Public
Care
- Carers assessments - Peter McLaren, Glasgow City Council and Chair, HPIAF
SSA Performance Measures Sup Group
Raising Standards in Consultation and Research, and in using
Health and Social Care Data: 14 October 2003
Brighton Town Hall,
Brighton
Joint SEARIG and SSRG conference: Raising Standards in Consultation & Research
and in using health and social care data.
Presentations
- Using Ethics
Guidelines to promote good quality research - Ron Iphofen, Social
Research Association
- Research Governance
Framework, the Policy Context; Background and Progress to date -
Carol Lupton, Department of Health
- Negotiating
research governance as a university researcher - Sue Balloch, University
of Brighton
- Young people
and research - Claire Turner, Barnardos
- Demonstrator
project for information sharing in service delivery and looked after
children - Tim Rogers, West London Consortium
- Demonstrator
project for information sharing in mental health - Ian Swanson, Kensington
and Chelsea
- Implementing
Research Governance in West Sussex - Chris Rainey, West Sussex Social
and Caring Services
SSRG London Forum: 26 September 2003
The next SSRG London Forum meeting will be held on Friday 26th September
2003, 10am to 2pm.
The meeting will be at the SCIE offices (address below):
Social Care Institute for Excellence
1st Floor, Goldings House
2 Hay's Lane, London SE1 2HB
The nearest train/tube station is London Bridge. Lunch will be provided.
The subject of the meeting will be partnerships. The meeting is open to
all but it will be helpful to know numbers in advance as accommodation is
limited. For further information contact:
John o' Leary
Research Officer
NCH
85 Highbury Park
London
N5 1UD
Tel: 020 7288 7871
email: john.oleary@nch.org.uk
London SSRG Group: relationship between research and practice:
4 July 2003
Social Care Institute for Excellence
1st Floor, Goldings House
2 Hay's Lane, London SE1 2HB
This SSRG London Forum meeting discussed the relationship between research
and practice. For further details contact:
John O' Leary
Research Officer, NCH, 85 Highbury Park, London
N5 1UD
Tel: 020 7288 7871
email: john.oleary@nch.org.uk
SSRG Scotland Seminars: 22 May 2003
Seminar Series 2002-03: Major Issues and Joint Challenges in Social
and Health Care
Part of a seminar series organised by Social Services Research Group - Scotland
to consider systematically the major developments relating to public services
for social and health care. See details below.
Linking Care Planning with Community Planning
22 May 2003, Edinburgh
For further details contact:
Sandra Paton (SSRG Event),
tel: 0131 553 8283
email: sandra.paton@edinburgh.gov.uk
SSRG London Forum Meeting: 2 May 2003
The SSRG London Forum meeting was held on Friday 2nd May 2003, 10am to 2pm.
The meeting was at the offices of the Social Care Institute for Excellece
(SCIE).
The subject of the meeting was contracting and commissioning.
Contact John O'Leary e-mail: JohnOl@nch.org.uk
SSRG Annual Workshop 2003: Quality, Inequality and Diversity
in Social Care and Health: 07 April - 09 April 2003
Stamford Hall,
University of Leicester
7th, 8th and 9th April
Presentations - Monday 7 April 2003
Morning workshops:
- Information Management
in Social Care - Don Rhodes SSI
- The Cambridgeshire Assessment
Tool and the Single Assessment Process: The Organic Approach - Mark
Howe and Alan Shields, Cambridgeshire Social Services
- Improving the Health
of Vulnerable and Looked After Children-Parental Health Matters Too -
Leon Polnay Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham
Afternoon sessions:
Research as Empowerment: Exploring Different Perspectives -
Peter Beresford: View
presentation
Julia Warrener:
Shula Ramon
Presentations - Tuesday 8 April 2003
- Better Knowledge
for Better Practice: the role of SCIE - Bill Kilgallon. Chief Executive
SCIE
Morning workshops:
- Data Sharing for
Children & Young People - Its Only Difficult! - David Tordoff,
ISB/IRT Project Manager Telford & Wrekin Partnership
- Integrating Services
for older People: A whole systems approach - Jane Carrier, Audit
Commission
- Bigger and Better
Lives: Involving People with Learning Disabilities - Mike Pinnock,
Julie Clark and Alan New. North Lincolnshire Social and Housing Services
- The University/agency
Partnership in Enabling Social Care Workers to be Research-minded' -
June Thoburn CBE, Chair, Making Research Count
Afternoon workshops:
- Developing Partnerships
with Non-acute Service Providers - Janet Crampton, Change Agent Team,
Joint Health and Social Care Unit, Department of Health
- Consulting with Black and Ethnic Minority Children -
Raff Carmen and Nasser Quhill, Yemeni Development Foundation/Birmingham
Children's Fund
- Making the most
of census data - Graham Gardner, Nottingham City Council
Presentations - Wednesday 9 April 2004
- From Managing Indicators
to Managing Quality - Keith Moultrie Institute of Public Care, Oxford
Brookes University
- Developments in SSI
Performance Assessment - Mike Beazley Department of Health
Morning Workshops:
- Local PIs and target
setting - Nick Miller Norfolk Social Services
Afternoon Workshops:
- When authorities 'fail':
understanding and learning from the experience - Julie Barnes Independent
Researcher
- Getting outcomes
into practice - introducing a resource pack - Elinor Nicholas SPRU.
University of York (flyer
for resource pack)
- Ten Years at the
Audit Commission - Lessons Learned and Challenges for the Future of Regulation -
Sir Andrew Foster, Controller, Audit Commission
Details of Full Programme
Day 1: Monday 7 April 2003
- Introduction: Andrew Cozens, Corporate Director of Social Care and Health,
Leicester City Council, and Vice President, ADSS
- The Application of Intelligence to Social Care - Lord Laming of Tewin
- Off the Peg or a Tailored Suit? Choice and Diversity in Social Services
- Alison King, Chair LGA Social Affairs and Health Executive
- Tackling Inequalities in Health - Andrew Whitehouse Joint Head, Health
Inequalities Unit, Department of Health
Workshops
- Implementing the Research Governance Framework in Social Care - Carol
Lupton, Department of Health
- The Cambridgeshire Assessment Tool and the Single Assessment Process:
The Organic Approach - Mark Howe and Alan Shields, Cambridgeshire Social
Services
- Information Management in Social Care - Don Rhodes SSI
- Improving the Health of Vulnerable and Looked After Children-Parental
Health Matters Too - Leon Polnay Queen's Medical Centre, University of
Nottingham
- Research as Empowerment: Exploring Different Perspectives - Peter Beresford,
Julia Warrener and Shula Ramon, Toronto Group
Day 2 Tuesday 8th April 2003
- Better Knowledge for Better Practice: the role of SCIE - Bill Kilgallon.
Chief Executive SCIE
Workshops/Small Groups.
- Bigger and Better Lives: Involving People with Learning Disabilities
- Mike Pinnock, Julie Clark and Alan New. North Lincolnshire Social and
Housing Services
- A Measure of Success: Equalities Assessment Framework - Mohammed Mossadaq.
Hampshire County Council
- Integrating Services for older People: A whole systems approach - Jane
Carrier, Audit Commission
- Data Sharing for Children & Young People - Its Only Difficult! -
David Tordoff, ISB/IRT Project Manager Telford & Wrekin Partnership
- The University/agency Partnership in Enabling Social Care Workers to
be Research-minded' - June Thoburn CBE, Chair, Making Research Count
Workshops/Small Groups
- Making the most of census data - Graham Gardner, Nottingham City Council
- Developing Partnerships with Non-acute Service Providers - Janet Crampton,
Change Agent Team, Joint Health and Social Care Unit, Department of Health
- Consulting with Black and Ethnic Minority Children - (Speaker to be
confirmed)Birmingham Children's Fund
- The Use of images for the Illumination of Organisational Functioning
with Particular Reference to PCTs - Paul Waddingon, University of Central
England
- Research in Diversity and Equality - Ratna Dutt. Director, REU
- Measuring performance is essential to ensuring top quality services:
a debate. - Bill Jordan, University of Exeter and Steve Pitt, SSI
Referee: Paul Waddington
Day 3 Wednesday 9th April 2003
- From Managing Indicators to Managing Quality - Keith Moultrie Institute
of Public Care, Oxford Brookes University
- Developments in SSI Performance Assessment - Mike Beazley Department
of Health
Workshops/Small Groups
- Local PIs and target setting - Nick Miller Norfolk Social Services
- Involving Users in Performance Assessment - Christine Lewington, Worcestershire
Social Services
- When authorities 'fail': understanding and learning from the experience
- Julie Barnes Independent Researcher
- Getting outcomes into practice - introducing a resource pack - Elinor
Nicholas SPRU. University of York
- Ten Years at the Audit Commission - Lessons Learned and Challenges for
the Future of Regulation: Sir Andrew Foster, Controller, Audit Commission
The 2003 SSRG Annual Workshop was supported by
SSRG Scotland Seminars: Single Shared Assessment: 31 March
2003
Single Shared Assessment
31 March 2003
Old Viewforth Stirling
The seminar addressed key issues in implementing the SSA:
- how effectively are agencies working together?
- how is information being recorded and shared?
- how is the Resource Unit Measure being taken forward?
Also looked at how the single assessment process is being taken forward
in England.
Presentations
- Introduction: The Policy Context/Overview: Speaker from Joint Future
Unit, Scottish Executive
- Policy into Practice: Issues in Implementation of SSA across Social
Care and Health - Tony Wells, Chief Executive Tayside Health Board
- SSA Progress to date and what needs to be done - Liz Taylor, Joint Future
unit, Scottish Executive
- SSA In practice - Charles McKerron (Moray)
- Sharing and recording information - Elaine McKinney, Joint Future Unit,
Scottish Executive
- The Cambridge Assessment Tool and the Single Assessment Process - Mark
Howe and Alan Shields, Cambridgeshire SSD (this will look at process/practice
and IT)
- RUM Progress to date and what needs to be done - Winona Samet Joint
Future Unit, Scottish Executive
- RUM in practice - Dawn Judge and Chrys Barr, Perth and Kinross Health
and Social Care Cooperative
SSRG London Forum: 31 January 2003
Social Care Insitute for Excellence,
Goldings House,
2 Hays Lane,
London SE1 2HB
The second meeting of the SSRG London Forum will be held on 31 January 2003,
10.00-14.OO, lunch provided.
The meeting looked at performance indicators - with Stella Law speaking
on results of work she and Karin Janzon undertook recently - Evaluating
the Performance of Local Authority Social Services: The Performance Assessment
Framework by Stella Law and Karin Janzon.
The case for and against the PAF as it is at the moment - in the context
of the needs of service users in London was also be discussed.
Print or view and outline of Stella Law's
presentation and paper (Word
file).
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