Reducing the cost of assessments and reviews
An adult social care briefing for councils
This briefing is the third in a series looking at how councils and their partners can achieve better value for money in adult social care.
It focuses on social care assessments and reviews, considers changes in councils’ expenditure on assessments and reviews over time, and examines how some councils have managed to keep their costs low while continuing to meet vulnerable people’s needs.
The benchmarking tool allows councils to assess and compare their costs, staffing and activity levels against others of similar type, geographic area, markets and scale of operation. Where costs are high, councils should investigate the reasons, assess how local circumstances affect their costs, and identify the scope for making savings. But all councils, including those with relatively low costs, can use this tool to identify the scope for further savings.
The methodology briefing note describes the approach used for the secondary analysis of quantitative data in the report.
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Reducing the cost of assessments and review: an adult social care briefing for councils
Assessments and reviews in adult social care: methodology briefing note
Assessment and care reviews in adult social care benchmarking tool