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About the Panel

The Role of the Panel

The Social Care Panel is responsible for all of the Institute's policy and technical work on social care and reports to CIPFA's Public Finance and Management Board. It is responsible for the development of: the Institute's responses to exposure drafts and consultation papers; the Institute's policies on current issues of concern; and guidance and advice on finance and policy issues affecting social care.

The Panel meets quarterly and its terms of reference are:

Finance and policy issues relating to social care
Policy formulation and implementation within Board approved strategies and business plans
Approval (by the Chairman where necessary) of Institute responses to Government, professional bodies' and other bodies' consultation/discussion papers and exposure drafts
Work programme formulation for recommendation to Board, monitoring of programmes and reporting performance to Board
The development, promotion and maintenance of best practice, standards and guidelines and the production and dissemination of relevant advice and material for members and employers, on issues falling within the Panel's defined areas of responsibility
The establishment of positive and productive professional relationships with Government, government departments and agencies, the national audit bodies professional regulators and other bodies falling within the Panel's defined areas of responsibility
Joint working with CIPFA's Public Finance and Management Board and its Panels, as appropriate, on matters of mutual interest.