The Vision for Adult Social Care was issued by the
Department of Health in November 2010. It sits alongside the review
of Adult Social Care Law and the Review of Social Care Funding as
three pillars of the reforms proposed for the system in
England. In Control is working separately on the law review
with the Law Commission; and we will also be responding to the
Funding review document.
In Control has publicly welcomed the Vision for Adult Social
Care, which builds on many of the developments that we have
pioneered since 2003. But we have expressed concerns that
self-directed support and personalisation may become tarnished by
the need for big reductions in public spending and in so doing will
not be implemented properly; or that self-directed support and
personalisation are used as a smokescreen in some localities to
obscure the real impact of cuts in eligibility and in resource
allocation.
The paper below - Implementing the Vision for Adult Social Care
deals with the measures outlined in the Vision in more depth, and
sets out how In Control can support citizens, families, user-led
organisations, provider organisations, local authorities and others
to make a reality of the Vision. It does this by working through
the main points of the document and setting out our response.
The full Vision for Adult Social Care is also available to
download below.
Last Updated : 21 January 2011. Page Author: Laura Bimpson.
