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Supporting People: The Essential Guide for Finance Practitioners (Fully Revised Fifth Edition 2008)
CIPFA's Supporting People guide provides comprehensive finance coverage of this important and constantly changing programme. Written by independent consultant and former City of Westminster Finance Director, Paul Cook, this major revision for 2008 embraces:
- Further steps towards incorporating Supporting People in local area agreements
- CLG's national strategy for Supporting People
- The funding settlement for 2008-09 following Comprehensive Spending Review 2007
- The new Supporting People Distribution Formula analysed in detail
- New chapter on Supporting People services with financial management pointers
- Guidance on the grant conditions for 2008-09
- Working with the Third Sector
- Revised Supporting People key lines of enquiry and the future of inspection arrangements
- Supporting People in Wales.
Expert financial management of this programme is at a premium, as councils use the programme to help vulnerable clients. This new edition of CIPFA's guide is, therefore, required reading on this complex area. It provides a step-by-step guide to the financial elements of Supporting People.
Councillors' Guide to Local Government Finance 2008 Fully Revised Edition (2008)
Edited by Anna Capaldi, Rita Hale & Associates Limited
The constantly changing nature of local government finance is a key factor in the incessant demand for CIPFA's Councillors' Guide, which is fully revised each year.
The guide provides a sound introduction to local government finance for newly elected members and up-to-date information on current issues for experienced councillors. Feedback tells us that it is also seen as a handy reference point and useful training resource for practitioners.
The 2008 edition of the guide is available as a durable hardback book, and also as a CD-ROM. Included on the disc is a powerful search function allowing the user to quickly find their requested material.
Further details about the guide can be found on the CIPFA shop.
Direct Payments and Individual Budgets: Managing the Finances
This timely publication from CIPFA’s expert Social Care Panel is fully supported by the Department of Health and in Control.
It is an essentially practical guide and addresses the emerging environment and provides some early advice to local authorities that wish to tackle the challenging financial issues involved in extending direct payments, or developing individual budgets or in Control schemes. It provides guidance on both direct payments and individual budgets and widely updates CIPFA’s Community Care Direct Payments: Accounting and Financial Management Guidelines.
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Achieving Transformational Change – Reform, Efficiency and Lean Thinking in the NHS: A Comprehensive Guide to Success...(2007)...for Board Members, Senior Managers and Practitioners
How do you reform healthcare and save money at the same time? How do you ensure value for money throughout the organisation? How should changes to frontline systems be developed and what should the changes be?
Each of these questions and a whole lot more are covered in this CIPFA Health Panel publication.
Children's Trusts: The Essential Financial Management Companion (2006)
This timely guide from CIPFA provides comprehensive finance coverage of this important and challenging new development.
The guide is aimed at keeping trust managers and finance leads in command of their finances whilst enabling them to plan ahead strategically for the full roll-out of children's trusts by 2008.
It is written by independent consultant and former City of Westminster Finance Director, Paul Cook for CIPFA's Local Authority Education Panel, and is supported by the Department for Education and Skills.
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Discharges - A Practical Guide to the Financial Implications (2005)
This concise all-in-one guide is essential reading for finance and service professionals operating within social services, the NHS acute sector and primary care trusts. This no-nonsense publication takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the reimbursement legislation focusing on both health and social care responsibilities, the legal requirements and the potential risk areas for all concerned.
The guide covers all the key areas including implementing local protocols, the use of pooled budgets, dealing with disputes and making the most of the reimbursement grant, highlighting both good practice and potential areas of concern.
An
Introductory Guide to Social Services Finance (Fully Revised Second Edition)
(2004)
This guide, first published in 1999, has now been completely updated to encompass the substantial body of new legislation implemented in the last five years affecting the delivery of social care. This includes, amongst many others, the Health Act 1999, Health and Social Care Act 2001, Adoption and Children Act 2002, Children Leaving Care Act 2000, Local Government Acts 1999 to 2003, Care Standards Act 2000 and the Children Bill 2004.
Topics covered in detail include:
- The Local Government Finance Framework and Revenue and Capital Expenditure
- Financial Management
- Accounting for Social Services
- The Social Services Department as Strategic Commissioner
- Effective Partnerships
- Contracting for Social Care
- Charging for and Pricing Services
- Services for Children
- Services for Adults
- Regulatory Framework
Community
Care Direct Payments: Accounting and Financial Management Guidelines (Fully
Revised Second Edition) (2004)
CIPFA has revised its guidance for England, Scotland and Wales, last published in 1998. The Department of Health welcomes this additional advice to councils in this important and expanding area of policy. This revised guidance complements the changes to the Department of Health regulations in April 2003 as a resource for councils and other interested parties in implementing direct payments. The CIPFA guidance covers the following issues:
- scope
- financial monitoring of direct payments
- unit costs
- direct payments for other services
- net versus gross payments
- commissioning and budget planning
- funding for support services