Care Quality Commission assessment
The Care Quality Commission|
(CQC) no longer issues star rating judgements for local councils. The Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF) was first launched on 31 March 2011 by the Department of Health and was updated on 30 March 2012 for 2012/13. This framework forms the basis of the Adult Heath and Social Improvement Plan.
The framework contains four outcome based domains which can be used nationally and locally to illustrate performance of local councils and provide comparison across councils The four domains are:
| Domain | Outcome |
|---|---|
| 1 | Enhancing quality of life for people with care and support needs |
| 2 | Delaying and reducing the need for care and support |
| 3 | Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care and support |
| 4 | Safeguarding people whose circumstances make them vulnerable and protecting from avoidable harm |
We have added a further two domains to ensure that the services we offer are provided equitably and efficiently:
| Domain | Outcome |
|---|---|
| 5 | Narrowing the gap |
| 6 | Use of resources and efficiency savings |
Overall Calderdale was judged in 2009/10 as “Performing Well” (second highest rating) and was judged as performing well in all seven outcome areas that make up the overall judgement .This means as a council we are delivering services that are consistently above the minimum requirement, for people. We were also judged as having promising prospects for Leadership and Commissioning and Use of Resources.
This judgement was arrived at based on a self declaration which, this year, was validated by the service inspection in June 2010.
From 2010/11 CQC designed a new approach which is a more localised one where councils have increased responsibility for driving their own improvement and maintaining their own internal monitoring.
Performance will continue to be monitored by Directorate Management Team, using the Council’s Planning Framework on a monthly basis. This will enable any corrective action that may be required, to be taken at an early stage.
Calderdale Performance Report: September 2010 [PDF file 234KB]|
