Let's be frank about how much care we can - and cannot - afford. Investment in prevention and perfect efficiency will not free up the resources to meet all social care needs. The government’s social care reform plans offer us the opportunity to be honest about that, says consultant Colin Slasberg. The level of funding for social care matters.
However welcome investment in prevention, however efficient services can be made through best practices, any suggestion that these measures between them will solve the chronic funding shortfall in social care is optimistic to the point of recklessness. However, the draft Care and Support Bill creates an opportunity to get the relationship between needs and funding on a basis that holds authentic promise for the future. Whether this opportunity is taken will depend crucially on how Department of Health frames the supporting guidance. The key is that councils will have both a duty to meet some needs that have been assessed, and a power to meet all the others. About Mithran Samuel. Draft Care and Support Bill published. Basic Guide to Program Evaluation (Including Many Additional Resources)
© Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Adapted from the Field Guide to Nonprofit Program Design, Marketing and Evaluation. This document provides guidance toward planning and implementing an evaluation process for for-profit or nonprofit programs -- there are many kinds of evaluations that can be applied to programs, for example, goals-based, process-based and outcomes-based. Nonprofit organizations are increasingly interested in outcomes-based evaluation. If you are interested in learning more about outcomes-based evaluation, then see the sections Outcomes-Evaluation and Outcomes-Based Evaluations in Nonprofit Organizations. Sections of This Topic Include Online Guides, etc.Outcomes-EvaluationGeneral Resources Also see Evaluations (many kinds) Related Library Topics Related Library Topics Also See the Library's Blogs Related to Program Evaluations Library's Business Planning Blog Library's Building a Business Blog Library's Strategic Planning Blog 1.. 2. 3. 1.
INTRODUCTION. A Guide to Developing and Using Performance Measures in Results-based Budgeting By Mark Friedman Prepared for The Finance Project May 1997 About The Author: Mark Friedman served for 19 years in the Maryland Department of Human Resources, including six years as the Departmentís chief financial officer. "Cheshire Cat," Alice began, "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
" -- Lewis Carroll Hours after the last familiar sign, the driver kept up a steady pace. -- Anon. "Thank God we don't get the government we pay for. " -- Will Rogers Will Rogers' cynicism about the performance of government still captures a common, if not always constructive, part of public life at the end of the 20th century. The title of this paper contains a crucial distinction between two types of accountability: accountability for results and accountability for performance. This paper is part of a series of papers published by The Finance Project on the subject of results accountability.
A. B. C. A. B. Www.pssru.ac.uk/pdf/dp2699.pdf. Outcome-based commissioning - Yorkshire & the Humber Joint Improvement Partnership - Developing Intelligent commissioning. Outcome-based commissioning Basing all decisions on outcomes is a key principle for commissioners, although in many settings it remains aspirational. Most people are now working towards an outcomes-based approach to commissioning and all will need to be aware that this is central to the government’s approach to public expenditure commissioning. Outcome-based commissioning means putting in place a set of arrangements whereby a service is defined and paid for on the basis of a set of agreed outcomes. It means shifting the basis on which services are purchased and resources allocated from units of service provision (hours, days or weeks of a given activity) for pre-defined needs to what is needed to ensure that the outcomes desired by service users are met.
The development of commissioning for quality and outcomes, with payment linked to work done, was a vision of the Commissioning framework for health and wellbeing, published in 2007. What is an outcome? Individual outcomes - e.g.