Wales has launched a consultation process on the future of its social services. The consultation will be managed by a new body, set up in December 2009, called the Independent Commission on Social Services. The Commission’s role is to investigate and report back on how the Welsh Assembly Government should reshape social care and social services in Wales over the next 10 years. Its work will take place within the context of the recent Welsh Green Paper on the future of social care funding, ‘Paying for care’.
At present, social care costs Wales £1.2 billion per year, with services provided to 150,000 people by 70,000 staff. The Commission will look at improving the current system in four key areas:
- Best practice, training and development for staff
- Consolidating the existing services by bringing together all the individuals and organisations that contribute
- Joint working with other services, e.g. the NHS
- How to meet the social care needs of the Welsh population in the best and most effective way.
The Commission is urging carers, service users and the public to submit feedback on how the above areas of social care can be improved through a ‘Call for Evidence’ process. You can find out more about this at the Welsh government website. Submissions should be returned by 26 February 2010. The Commission will report back its findings and recommendations to the Assembly in November.
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