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The feasibility of introducing an adult safeguarding measure (survey) for inclusion in the adult social care outcomes framework (ASCOF)
— projecting costs | | Author(s) | Caroline Norrie, Jill Manthorpe, Cher Cartwright |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 18, no 2, 2016 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 71-85 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/jap.htm |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; At risk ; Protection [vulnerable adults] ; Measurement ; Local Authority ; Costs [care]. |
| Annotation | The Health and Social Care Information Centre undertook the development and piloting of a new adult safeguarding outcome measure (a face-to-face survey) for local authorities (LAs) that could be added to the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF). The ASCOF was a national collection of social care outcomes performance indicators collected from the perspective of people receiving partial or total funding from a LA for care services. The projected costs of introducing the survey as a new statutory measure in England were assessed. An outcome measure (a face-to-face interview based survey consisting of seven questions) was piloted during 2014 in 40 LAs with 20 adults at risk (or other informant) in each site who had been the subject of a safeguarding investigation. LAs were asked to estimate the cost of conducting the survey for two years, interviewing at least 15 per cent of their completed safeguarding cases each year. Extrapolating cost findings to the full 152 LAs in England would give an estimated total cost of implementing the survey of approximately £3 million in Year 1 and £2.1 million in Year 2. Setup costs for the survey could therefore be estimated at around £900,000. Wide variations were identified in the costs per interview between LAs. The benefits of this unique survey were that it enabled LAs to measure how they were undertaking their adult safeguarding work from the perspective of adults at risk and others with a close interest. It also enabled LAs to meet their new obligations under the Care Act 2014 Guidance to `understand what adults at risk think of adult safeguarding'. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160415219 A |
| Classmark | QNT: CA3: CA3G: 3R: PE: QDC |
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