{"id":299,"date":"2014-06-06T17:06:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T16:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/?p=299"},"modified":"2014-06-06T17:06:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T16:06:54","slug":"scottish-care-care-at-home-and-housing-support-conference-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/2014\/06\/06\/scottish-care-care-at-home-and-housing-support-conference-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Care Care at Home and Housing Support Conference 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Some highlights from the recent care at home and housing support conference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There were more providers than ever at the event.. does this mean they are ready to engage\/looking for guidance?<\/li>\n<li>There was discussion on the investment into care at home services as the future of care<\/li>\n<li>Many speakers openly condemned 15 minute visits as a whole &#8211; and in my talk I attempted to push this further&#8230; should we be commissioning based on time at all?!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Discussion on the value of support staff and concern surrounding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; the &#8216;ageing staff generation&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; poor terms and conditions<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; expectations vs. reward<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; making staff genuine partners<\/li>\n<li>Trusting staff to do their jobs and know their roles and the people they support<\/li>\n<li>But&#8230; there weren&#8217;t many front line staff in attendance &#8211; I wonder what their response would have been?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, later in the event there was a comment from Colin Angel,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #292f33\">Policy and Campaigns Director at United Kingdom Homecare Association who said that staff should be aware that CCTV is easy to install.. and they can be watched and broadcast!\u00a0I know I was certainly uneasy about the tension between trusting staff and making them partners and threat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Care Inspectorate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was also great to have representation from the Care Inspectorate there to discuss maintaining public faith and changes and improvements in care services across Scotland. The best stats?\u00a0<span style=\"color: #292f33\">We have 4 times as many people getting home care than in hospital -98% of that care is bring delivered well or better !<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The debate on SDS stressed a few things:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>INFORMATION IS KEY! (speaking of&#8230; have a wee look at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #005c9e\" href=\"http:\/\/pilotlight.iriss.org.uk\/self-directed-support\">http:\/\/pilotlight.iriss.org.uk\/self-directed-support<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>SDS is a real opportunity for people.. but also for providers to respond to emerging demands.<\/li>\n<li>It can be a real postcode lottery as each local authority has a different approach and some aren&#8217;t in the best interest of people who access support<\/li>\n<li>Relationships must be at the core of SDS &#8211; it isn&#8217;t a way to repackage existing failing systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you weren&#8217;t able to make the day and want to see some other folks&#8217; highlights- it&#8217;s all available on the tag\u00a0<span>#careathome2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some highlights from the recent care at home and housing support conference: There were more providers than ever at the event.. does this mean they are ready to engage\/looking for guidance? There was discussion on the investment into care at home services as the future of care Many speakers openly condemned 15 minute visits as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/2014\/06\/06\/scottish-care-care-at-home-and-housing-support-conference-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scottish Care Care at Home and Housing Support Conference 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/fitforthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}