Partnership working / social care

A challenging yet exciting future lies ahead for health bodies and local authorities. In these times, never has innovation and integration between health and social care been of such paramount importance. Capsticks' health and social care team has experience of both the health and local government sector and can help you to deliver the groundbreaking, and for some service users, life changing, solutions that now need to be delivered.

We can:

  • Provide advice on the most appropriate legal structures, forms, mechanisms and governance arrangements to assist you in implementing your integration agenda.
  • Provide you with practical solutions and insights from experience that we know have worked elsewhere.
  • Help the parties to identify and navigate through some of the perceived barriers to integration, including advising on some of the more challenging issues surrounding staff transfers and pensions;
  • Draft the required documentation whatever from the integration is to take whether it be, S75 agreements, integrated management arrangements,  transfers of services between local authorities and health bodies, transfers of particular services to social enterprises, whether arising out of “right to provide” requests or otherwise or transfers to integrated care organisations;
  • Guide the way for local authorities in taking on public health functions, in the establishment of their health and well being boards and offer guidance and assistance as to how they can best integrate and work closely with the NHS, clinical commissioners, the third sector, other key partners and their stakeholders.
  • Enable you to understand what it is possible to deliver within your vires and statutory powers, particularly with the arrival of the general power of competence and the changes resulting from the Health and Social Care Bill.

Our work includes:

  • S75 arrangements for joint commissioning units, public health and various other services including children’s services, learning disabilities, integrated community equipment services, DOLS and others;
  • Considering the impact and redrafting of S75 arrangements and providing options on the structure of integration arrangements
  • Transfer of health and social services to an integrated care organisation and to social enterprises.

We can also providing seminars, workshops and guidance to clients on some on the key emerging developments within health and social care including:

  • the new requirements for public health and health and wellbeing boards and the implications of other future changes as a result of the Health and Social Care Bill
  • the impact of the “right to provide” agenda and the implications of the Localism Bill in terms of the community right to challenge and the advent of the power of general competence
  • social work practice pilots
  • personal budgets and direct payments

Capsticks and the LGC

Capsticks are the founders of the Social Enterprise webpages on the LGC (Local Goverment Chronicle) website. Please visit the LGC website to see the latest articles and to meet members of our social enterprise team.

Click here to view the LGC's latest webinar 'Social Enterprise: a viable option for service delivery'.

Partnership working partners

Hilary Blackwell
Chris Brophy
Philip Brown
Gary Hay
Colin Lynch