CCPS meets Chiefs of new Scrutiny Body
Posted on Thursday 24 February 2011
CCPS met on 18 February with the SCSWIS interim Chief Executive (Jacquie Roberts) and Chair (Frank Clark) at their invitation, to discuss developments relating to the launch of SCSWIS on 1 April 2011. SCSWIS is required to make savings of 25% over the next four years, starting with a 7.6% reducion in 2011-12, with implications for the frequency and intensity of inspections. A news bulletin outlining key appointments and decisions, and the proposed inspection arrangements for 2011-12, has been produced and is available to view online.
CCPS took the opportunity to outline the key information needs of providers as SCSWIS is developed, including:
- more details about the way in which reduced frequency inspections, coupled with greater reliance on self-evaluation, will affect both the gradings system itself and the currency of gradings among commissioners and the public
- how SCSWIS will make the connection between the quality of services on the one hand, and the quality of commissioning, assessment, review, care management and other local authority processes on the other
- how the new power of corporate inspection of providers will work in practice, and how policy in this area will be developed
- how SCSWIS will approach its inspection, improvement and regulatory functions in respect of personalisation, SDS and the introduction of Resource Allocation Systems.
Meanwhile the consultation on regulations for SCSWIS has now closed: CCPS's response can be viewed online on our policy pages.