Solihull Social Services
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A Case in Point
Jenny Wood Director of Social Services
An Archaic Provider of Poor Services which does not deliver the Core Legal Entitlement nor the Concept of ‘meeting needs’
The Act therefore signals a shift from existing duties on local authorities to provide particular services... The History of a Service Provider
1992-1995 - Biochemist
2003-2003 (less than a year) - Joint Commissioning Manager
2003-2007 - Service Manager
2007 - 2011 - Head of Service
2011 - 2016 - Head of Social Care and Support
(During which time the 2014 Social Care Act became the law and enacted a 'shift from existing duties')
2016 - Present - Director of Adult Social Care
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You DecideHere is an extract from the official guidance to the 2014, it is section 1.9 from the section Promoting wellbeing
The Act therefore signals a shift from existing duties on local authorities to provide particular services, to the concept of ‘meeting needs’ (set out in sections 8 and 18 to 20 of the Act). This is the core legal entitlement for adults to and support, establishing one clear and consistent set of duties and power for all people who need care and support." There is a world of difference between providing an service and 'meeting needs'
For example the practice of sending in any 'ole Care Agency on a block contract at the cheapest possible price is a provision of service only. It is so often of the commissioning and so providing an unreliable poor quality 'care' call - if that is of course if the agency turns up at all.It is merely providing a cheap service. Is that meeting someone's needs? Is that delivering the core legal entitlement? Ofsted Report on Poor Management in Solihull Social Services
Equipment and Adaptions
Pre-paid Card Enforcement
Direct Payments
Covid - Non Compliance
Disability Related Expenditure
Better [Worse] Living Centre
Equipment Stores
Abusive Intervention - Safeguarding
Local Goverment Ombudsman Tales
Customer Services Manager and Mental Health Assessor
Unregistered Social Worker
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