Social care - self-directed support: framework of standards - May 2024

This framework consists of a set of standards for local authorities to provide them with an overarching structure, aligned to legislation and statutory guidance, for further implementation of the self-directed support approach to social care. This update includes standard descriptor and practice statement and core components and practice guidance.


Footnotes

1 Evidence included: Independent Review of Adult Social Care (2021); the Care Inspectorate thematic report (2019) on the delivery of SDS across six partnerships, and Audit Scotland (2017) on progress in implementing SDS, which highlighted there was no evidence that authorities had yet made the transformation required to fully implement the SDS strategy.

2 Van Dyke, M., Blase, K. and Fixsen, D.L. (info@activeimplementation.org)

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