Plan 2025-26

  • Continued support (universal and bespoke) to councils before and after their CQC inspection with key focuses on carers and transitions.
  • Regional partnerships and initiatives to support adult social care workforce including on international recruitment and implementing an MoU to manage use of agency arrangements
  • Continued development of our Regional Co-production Advisory Network and its impact in influencing co-production practice – including our Lived Experience Coaching Programme
  • Shaping and influencing important policy areas including around joint funding, finances, adult social care reform
  • Research Champions to plan and undertake social care research activities supported by University of Birmingham and NIHR
  • Continued leadership and joint oversight of market sustainability and related issues with NHS/provider partners through key Networks like commissioning and finance
  • Delivery of our thematic Networks contributing over 1800 hours of focused time for peer-to-peer learning, improvement and innovation
  • Working together to support care market sustainability and stability to ensure that the needs of people and carers continue to be met – through our Networks
  • Continued leadership to regional learning disability and autism programme with NHS Midlands with a focus on SEND and the next phase of our autism and parental blame research
  • Continue to develop our Data Hub, deliver Power BI training sessions to adult social care analysts and focus on our new client level data benchmarking capabilities
  • Being on the front foot in supporting adult social care digital and exploring new opportunities for transformation enabled by technology / AI