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| Acronym | Words | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| AA | Appropriate Adult | An appropriate adult is a parent, guardian or social worker; or if no person matching this is available, any responsible person over 18. |
| ABI | Acquired Brain Injury | An acquired brain injury is brain damage caused by events after birth, rather than as part of a genetic or congenital disorder |
| ACH | Adult Care & Health | Adult social care is the support provided to adults with physical or learning disabilities, or physical or mental illnesses. |
| ACS | Adult & Community Services | Adult Community Services is when a request for a sitter is received, a Health or Social Care professional may arrange to visit you to make an assessment of care needs. |
| ADASS | Association of Directors of Adult Social Services | The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) is a charity representing directors of adult social services in England, and is a leading body on social care issues. |
| AHP | Allied Health Practitioners | |
| AIG | Autism Involvement Group | A specialist forum for people with autism, ADHD and related conditions and their carers, usually meeting every two months |
| AMHP | Approved Mental Health Professional | |
| AOB | Any Other Business | Anything else you want to talk about at the end of the meeting |
| ASC | Adult Social Care or Altered States of Consciousness (context specific) | |
| ASCOF | Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework | |
| AST | Arranging Support Team | |
| ASW | Approved Social Worker | |
| AWWWG | Adults Way We Work Group | A group that governs how changes are made in Adult Social Care, looking at pros, cons, and how they might impact elsewhere. |
| BCF | Better Care Fund | The Better Care Fund requires the NHS and local government to create a local single pooled budget to incentivise closer working around people, placing their wellbeing as the focus of health and care services, and shifting resources into social care and community services for the benefit of the people, communities and health and care systems. |
| BVR | Best Value Review | Best value reviews are the main way for authorities to consider new approaches to service provision and set targets for services to achieve continuous improvement |
| CA | Care Act | The Care Act is a law about care and support for adults in England. Because there are a lot of different laws on this it is difficult to know what care and support you could get. The 2014 Care Act brings them together under one law which gives clear and simple rules and guidance. Also discussed is what people should be able to get, what councils have to do, and guidance and information for councils on how to use the Care Act properly |
| CAMHS | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is a broad term for all services that work with children and young people who have difficulties with their emotional or behavioural wellbeing |
| CCG | Clinical Commissioning Group | Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are NHS organizations set up by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to organize the delivery of NHS services in England |
| CCT | Complex Care Team | The Complex Care Team provide support to residents in care homes who are unwell with a minor illness or injury |
| CDP | Care Direct Plus | |
| CF6 | Care First 6 | Computer software used for recording information about ASC service users |
| CHC | Continuing Healthcare | Continuing healthcare funding is free healthcare provided by the NHS which can be received in any setting outside of hospital including at home, within a hospice or in a care home (either residential or nursing). |
| CHLT | Care & Health Leadership Team | |
| CIAG | Creative Innovation and Growth Program | Support programme that is part of the Adult Social Care external markets support package |
| CIG | Commissioning Involvement Group | A group of people with lived experience of receiving social care services and equality issues who can give us in-depth insight into the effects of changes being made to social care and health. This group meets when required and exact member varies according to the issues being discussed. |
| COVID-19 | Coronavirus | A new illness spreading across the world. |
| CQC | Care Quality Commission | The independent regulator of health and social care in England. They make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. |
| CSCI | Commission for Social Care Inspection | |
| CSDB | Carers Strategy Delivery Board | |
| CSIP | Care Services Improvement Partnership | The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) brings together a number of programmes and teams including the National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) |
| CSM | Community Services Manager | |
| CSR | Comprehensive Sending Review | Comprehensive Spending Review is a governmental process in the United Kingdom carried out by HM Treasury to set firm expenditure limits and, through public service agreements, define the key improvements that the public can expect from these resources |
| CWG | Carers Working Group | |
| CYPS | Children & Young People’s Services | Children and Young People’s Services Children and Young People’s Services bring together a number of functions to help support children, young people and families in County |
| DANA | Devon Autism & ADHD Service | Devon Adult Autism and ADHD Service provides a diagnostic and advisory role for the assessment of high functioning autism/Asperger’s disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| DCC | Devon County Council | Devon County Council is the county council administering the English county of Devon. Based in the city of Exeter, the council covers the non-metropolitan county area of Devon |
| DCSB | Data Co-ordination Sub-Board | The Data Coordination Board (DCB) meets on a monthly basis to review and approve the assurance of information standards and data collections (including extractions), known collectively as ISCE. |
| DDAG | Data Delivery Action Group | |
| DeL | Devon Learning | |
| DHSC | Department of Health & Social Care | |
| DILIS | Devon Independent Living Integrated Service | |
| DIS | Disability Information Services | |
| DLA | Disability Living Allowance | Disability Living Allowance ( DLA ) has been replaced by Personal Independence Payment ( PIP ) for disabled people |
| DoLS | Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding | |
| DP | Direct Payments | Payments paid directly to disabled people aged 16 or over so that they can organise and pay for the services that they need, rather than use the services the council offers. This means people have greater choice and control in how their care is delivered. |
| DPT | Devon Partnership Trust | An organisation that provides mental health services in Devon |
| DSAM | Devon Services Allocation Meeting | |
| DSAB | Devon Safeguarding Adults Board | |
| DSAP | Devon Safeguarding Adults Partnership | This used to be called Devon Safeguarding Adults Board |
| DSP | Devon Strategic Partnership | |
| DST | Decision Support Tool | The Decision Support Tool (DST) – used in NHS continuing healthcare funding decisions – is a document which helps to record evidence of an individual’s care needs to determine if they qualify for continuing healthcare funding |
| DTP | Disabilities Transformation Programme | |
| DTSAP | Devon and Torbay Safeguarding Adults Partnership | |
| DWP | Department of Work and Pensions | This is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. |
| ED | Emergency Department | |
| EDS | Emergency Duty Services | |
| EDT | Emergency Duty Team | Now called Emergency Duty Services |
| FIND | Forensic Service for men with Intellectual and Neurodevelopment Disorders | |
| FNC | Funded Nursing Care | |
| IB | Individual Budget | |
| IBCF | Improved Better Care Fund | The iBCF was first announced in the 2015 Spending Review, and is paid as a direct grant to local government, with a condition that it is pooled into the local BCF plan. According to the grant determination, the funding can be spent on three purposes: Meeting adult social care needs; Reducing pressures on the NHS, including supporting more people to be discharged from hospital when they are ready; Ensuring that the local social care provider market is supported. |
| ICF | Infection Control Fund | The Infection Control Fund provides financial support to providers so they can continue to pay their staff their normal wages whilst self-isolating according to government guidelines. |
| ICM | Integrated Care Model | Model of delivering care that reflects the intention to improve patient experience and achieve greater efficiency and value from health care delivery systems. |
| ICS | Integrated Care System | An integrated care system is when all organisations involved in health and social care work together in different, more joined-up ways. |
| IMCA | Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy | An IMCA is an advocate who has been specially trained to support people who are not able to make certain decisions for themselves and do not have family or friends who are able to speak for them |
| IMHA | Independent Mental Health Advocacy | |
| ILA | Independent Living Advisor | Someone who can advise a recipient of a Personal Budget (PB) about how they can use it to meet the outcomes of a Support Plan. All aspects of the first payment are currently dealt with by the DCC ILAs ensuring a Direct Payment (DP) is used safely and legally. The initial consultation about a DP is usually done face to face. The DCC ILAs then provide ongoing support concerning banking, employment of a Personal Advisor (PA), crisis management etc. |
| ILC | Independent Living Centre | |
| IRP | Independent Review Panel | |
| ISF | Individual Service Fund | This is a different way for you to buy your care from a Domiciliary Care Agency. |
| JAT | Joint Agency Team | |
| JEF | Joint Engagement Forum | A quarterly gathering of service users, carers and relevant organisational representatives which reviews ongoing involvement activities by DCC and NHS Devon CCG. |
| JMT | Joint Management Team | |
| JSLT | Joint Senior Leadership Team | |
| LA | Local Authority | The council area |
| LD | Learning Disability | A condition giving rise to learning difficulties, especially when not associated with physical disability |
| LDPB | Learning Disability Partnership Board | A two-monthly Board combining people with learning disabilities, carers, relevant providers and health and social care managers. |
| LG8/15/80 | Leadership Group 8/15/80 | Meetings of the top 8, 15 or 80 managers in DCC. |
| LIG | Local Implementation Group | The LIG (Local Implementation Group) is a forum for people with learning disabilities, carers and professionals who meet once a month for two hours (except in August) in their local community. |
| LPS | Liberty Protection Safeguarding | |
| LWAH | Living Well at Home Contract | A contract for receiving personal care services in your own home |
| MAC | Medical Adviory Committee | |
| MCA | Mental Capacity Act | |
| MECC | Making Every Contact Count | |
| MH | Mental Health | |
| NDHCT | North Devon Healthcare Trust | One of the main providers in the LWAH contract |
| NDTi | National Development Team for Inclusion | |
| NEW Devon CCG | Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group | |
| NHS | National Health Service | |
| NHSE | NHS England | |
| OBC | Outcome Based Commissioning | Outcome based commissioning (OBC) is a relatively new approach to commissioning health and social care services in the UK. Outcomes refer to the impacts or end results of services on a person’s life. As such, outcome-focused services aim to achieve the aspirations, goals and priorities as defined by service users. |
| OBS | Outcome Based Services | An outcome is something achieved because of care delivery. This calls for a team-based approach to care, which listens properly to what the person receiving care most wants to achieve and uses that, alongside evidence, to agree decisions with them about what outcomes to put on their support plan |
| Ofsted | Office for standards in education | |
| OP | Older People | |
| OT | Occupational Therapist | |
| PA | Personal Assistant | An assistant employed by the service via a direct payment. |
| PALS | Patient Advice and Liaison Services | |
| PATH | Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope | A person-centered planning tool that helps groups plan for the future |
| PB | Personal Budget | The amount of money you are given for your care. This is similar to an Individual Budget, but is only made up of funding for social care. |
| PCN | Primary Care Network | |
| PCP | Person Centred Planning | A more intensive type of support planning |
| PCT | Primary Care Trust | |
| PD | Physical Disability | |
| PDEG | Programme Delivery Executive Group | |
| PEN | Provider Engagement Network | |
| PFA or PfA | Preparing for Adulthood | |
| PHN | Primary Health Need | |
| PIP | Personal Independence Payment | This is a benefit for people aged between 16 and 64 who, because of a long-term illness or disability, may need help with daily activities or getting around. |
| PPEC | Patient and Public Engagement Committee | NEW Devon CCG engagement mechanism with service users |
| PQR | Practice Quality Reviews | |
| PSW | Principal Social Worker | |
| PUPoC | Previously Unassessed Package of Care | |
| QAIT | Quality Assurance and Improvement Team | |
| RAS | Resource Allocation System | |
| RM | Resource Manager | |
| RSPC Group | Re-Shaping Personal Care Group | This is a group of service users and carers who meet to help with the redesign of the Living Well at Home (LWAH) personal care contract |
| SAR | Safeguarding Adult Review | |
| SARs | Self-Assesment Report | |
| SCR | Serious Case Review | |
| SD&T CCG | South Devon & Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group | |
| SDEC | Same Day Emergency Care | |
| SDP | Safer Devon Partnership (Board) | |
| SEND | Special Educational Needs and Disablity | |
| SHO | Shared Hours Offer | An arrangement which enables employees to work reduced hours on a permanent or temporary basis |
| SI | Sensory Impairment | Sensory impairment is when one of your senses; sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste and spatial awareness, is no longer normal |
| SLT | Senior Leadership Team | |
| SMART (targets) | Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely | |
| SMG | Senior Management Group | |
| SSAM | Southern Services Allocation Meeting | |
| STP | Sustainable Transformation Programme | |
| STP | Sustainable Transformation Partnership | Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships have been introduced as a new approach to help ensure that health and care services are built around the needs of local populations |
| SU | Service User | |
| TCSG | Transforming Care Steering Group | |
| TECS | Technology Enabled Care and Support | |
| TEP | Treatment Escalation Plan | |
| TUPE | Transfer of Undertakings & Protection of Employment regulations | |
| YP | Young People | |
| Expression | ||
| 24/7 Grid | A planning tool, used mainly with people with a learning disability, that helps them plan their daily lives | |
| Banking Support Hours | Support hours that you save to use later. | |
| Brokerage | The assistance people may need to work out what their choices are in terms of care services they may wish to buy, and the process of support required to make it happen. | |
| Co-Design | Designing services equally with all stakeholders such as service users, carers, voluntary & community organisations, local government, and NHS | |
| Commissioner | A person whose job involves buying services | |
| Commissioning | Buying services | |
| Edge of Care | Exploring community support to keep people out of the care system | |
| Edibility Criteria | Eligibility Criteria are the rules councils use to decide if they should help you. | |
| Framework Agreement | A contract between DCC and a select list of providers whereby DCC and its partners can draw down services from the providers on the framework. Services from a framework contract are commissioned by DCC and paid for from a personal budget. | |
| Managed Personal Budget | An account managed by Devon County Council for services commissioned by DCC. | |
| Mixed Budget | A budget where some services are commissioned by DCC though the framework agreement and other services are purchased through a direct payment. | |
| My Plan | A written statement that sets out what care and support services you will receive | |
| Peer Support | This involves someone with experience of a disability, listening, sharing experiences, information and first-hand knowledge about living with a disability and assisting others in making informed, independent choices. | |
| Pooling Funds | Putting money for buying services together to get better services | |
| Prime Provider | The main provider that Devon County Council has a contract with | |
| Promoting Independence Policy | Working with individuals to optimize their abilities to function and to make their own choices in all aspects of their lives. | |
| Provider | An organisation that delivers services | |
| Self Directed Support | This includes a variety of ways to create personalised social care, whereby people have more control over the way the money for their care and support is spent. Services can be tailored to achieve an individual’s identified needs. It includes direct payments and personal or individual budgets | |
| Statutory | Obligation imposed by law | |
| Strengths Based Approach | This assesses the inherent strengths of a person or family and builds on them. | |
| Sub-Contractor or ‘Sub’ | The smaller providers in each area that the Primes work with to deliver the contract | |
| Support Brokerage | Involves the assistance that people need to work out what their choices will be, and the support required to make it happen | |
| Supporting Independence Contract | A new framework contract from Devon County Council for unregulated services | |
| Support Plan | Detail of an individual’s needs and the specified outcomes they believe that support will help them achieve. | |
| Universal Payment /Credit | This is a monthly payment to help with your living costs. You may be able to get it if you’re on a low income or out of work. | |
| Unregulated Services | Services not regulated by the Care Quality Commission, such as day services | |
| Zones | The areas covered by the Living Well at Home (LWAH) contract |