HCL offers improvement programme to children’s services

March 5, 2013 - PRLog -- HCL Social Care is offering local authorities assistance to UK children’s services before, during and after inspection with improvement programme, HCL Special Projects.

New inspection framework for local authorities’ children’s services launched last year, with the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) assessing how well local authorities and their partners identify, help and protect children in their areas.

HCL Special Projects is an end-to-end service covering pre-inspection health checks, an overview of systems and recommendations and mentoring in line with budgetary and service restrictions. The service is carried out by specialist project teams.

HCL Social Care Managing Director Stephen Hockey says the service has been developed in direct consultation with senior figures across the sector. We want to directly address the new Ofsted inspection criteria and work with local authorities to reverse the current trend of ‘inadequate’ gradings.” Mr Hockey said.

“The service is modular - local authorities can pick and choose elements of the HCL Special Projects package or select a full service. This allows us to provide a specific, measurable and effective improvement in systems, processes and morale.”  He said.

“It’s all about painting a clear, concise and transparent picture so local authorities can act. Key issues range from getting case loads audited and up-to-date, mentoring staff, refreshing quality assurance and compliance procedures and more.”

“As a volume supplier of social care staff, it’s imperative we are doing what we can to make sure we are giving local authorities the support they need, and to the highest level of compliance and safeguarding. Basically, we are looking to encourage positive outcomes for standards of care and cost efficiencies for children’s services.”

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For further information about HCL Social Care’s improvement service contact Regional Development Manager Laurence Lennon on 07825643572 or email laurence.lennon@hclplc.com

About HCL

HCL plc, headquartered in London, was formed in 2003 and is a leading provider of staffing solutions in the health and social care sectors. HCL supplies over 2,000 temporary and permanent doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, qualified social workers and administration & clerical staff to public and private sectors every week. We are an international company with offices in the UK and Australia and recruitment drives in Europe.

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