Common Asessment Framework for Adults

The DSA has responded to a Government proposal to introduce a Common Assessment Framework for Adults.

"The consultation is about improving the quality and efficiency of care and support through improvements in the sharing and use of information. It focuses on care and support for adults, and on assisting the continued development of personalisation by helping people to choose services better suited to their needs. The document covers the rationale for improving information, how assessment and care planning should be undertaken (the principles), what information should be commonly shared and with whom and the IT approaches that would enable this to take place within appropriate arrangements for consent, confidentiality and security. The consultation will be of interest to the general public, commissioners of health, social care and wider community support services, the voluntary and independent sectors."

Our response reflects our concerns about the complex nature of a common assessment database, which could be accessed by large numbers of people in different agencies, and the government's track record of IT based ‘solutions' to problems. Despite overall support for the principle of ‘telling it once' I believe there are more difficulties inherent in such a plan than solutions.

Read or download our response:  caf_consultation.pdf  88.75 Kb

Read the proposal

Read the summary of the report into Government databases, produced by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust.