APPG launches report outlining its vision for social care

Today the All Party Parliamentary Group for Adult Social Care has launched its report ‘A Vision For Social Care’. This report identifies a number of key areas around which the reform of social care will achieve the sustainable and meaningful impact for people who access care and support.

This report sets out the scale and breadth of the social care system and provides a number of case studies to further illustrate the impact it makes on the economic and community well being in areas across the country. This includes NorseCare, the largest care provider in Norfolk with 21 care homes, supporting around 900 residents plus the provision of care and support in 15 housing with care schemes for around 600 tenants living independently in their own flats

The report also outllines what social care should look like in 10 years, including

• More joined up action between health, housing and social care and other publish services.
• Commissioners should encourage new models of care and innovation - in terms of technology, housing with care and social care practice, including greater scale in the aims of the Transforming Care agenda for people with learning disabilities with improvements in community housing provision.

It suggests that a National Strategy for digital transformation across social care would help to ensure more consistency across the country and improve outcomes for people who access care and support. It is within this context that digital transformation can enable innovation in terms of service design, enabling new models of care to be developed and scaled up.

This is particularly important in the context of housing design and the incorporation of new technology and innovation, including in the development of new models of care.