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Question 1

What is the Health and Social Care Act 2012 in relation to personalisation?

Answer 1

Focuses on reducing, preventing and delaying peoples needs for formal support through involving the local authority and roles within communities and their responsibility relating to patients or service user wants or and needs.

Question 2

Local Authority Circular 2008 - How does this relate to personalisation?

Answer 2

LACs are issued by the Department of Health and Social Care to communicate guidance or a requirement for urgent action to local authorities. It contains details of the Social Care Reform grant to be used by Councils to redesign services to be more person centred, which could be used for extra care.

Question 3

The Care Act 2014 - Link to personalisation

Answer 3

Since the implementation of the Care Act 2014, personalisation has become part of the mainstream of adult social care, with rights to personalised care and support enshrined in law. Personalisation recognises people as individuals who have preferences and puts them at the centre of their own care and support. The Care Act places a responsibility on the local authority to inform the individual of their eligibility determination and produce a written record of whether any of their needs meet the eligibility criteria, and the reasons for this decision.

Question 4

Children and Families Act 2014 - Link to personalisation

Answer 4

Children’s worker safety checking and child protection policies. The Children’s Act 2014 (previously titled the Vulnerable Children Act 2014) introduced measures that will ensure that children can be better protected from abuse and neglect both in their homes and in the community.

• Working towards clear outcomes
• Engagements and participation of young people
• Coordinated assessments
• Personal budgets