Purpose-The health and social care information centre undertook the develpment an piloting of a new adult safeguarding outcome measure (a face-to-face survey) for local authorities (LAs) that cold be added to the addult social care outcmes framework(ASCOF). The ASCOP is a national collection of social care outcomes perfomance indicators collected from the perspective of people receiving partial or total funding from a LA for care services. The projected costs of introducing the survey as a new statutory measure in England were assessed.The projected aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach-An outcome measure (a face-to-face interview based survey consisting of seven questions) was piloted during 2014 in 40 LAs with 20 adults at risk (or other informant) in each site whp had been the subject of a safeguarding investigasion (n 1/4 382).LAs were asked to estimate the cost to their LA of conducting the survey for two years ,interviewing at least 15 per cent of their completed safeguarding casses each year.
Findings-Extrapolating cost findings to the full 152 LAs in England would give an estimated ttal cost of implementing the survey of opproximately E3 milion in year 1 and E2.1 milion in year 2 set-up costs for the survey can therefore be estimated at around E900.000. Wide variations werw identified in the costs perinterviews between LAs and reasons for this are discussed.
Originality/value- The benefits of this unique survey are it enables LAs to measure how they are undertaking their adult safeguarding work from the perspective of adults at risk and others with a close interes. It also enables LAs t meet their new bligations under the care Act 2014 Guidance to "undestand what adults at risk think of adult safeguarding"