The main areas of focus for the network in 2016-17 are:

• Retaining a focus on prevention and what it looks like in an environment of reduced resources.
• Understanding the financial pressures within the system and sharing strategies for mitigating impact on services.

Key objectives are to:

• Bring together examples of innovation and good practice from the WM that are impacting on long term care costs.
• Produce a series of case studies on ‘What does good look like in an environment of austerity’ working with ADPH.
• Undertake review of financial challenges faced by ASC in West Midlands.
• Use the UoR toolkit as a basis for undertaking benchmarking of regional finance data.
• Provide financial analysis for individual ASC budgets.

Useful links

• Inside out and upside down: community based approaches to social care prevention in a time of austerity

For more information please contact:

Pete Fahy

Director of Adult Services

Coventry City Council