Jargon Buster

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