Reshaping Care for Older People: Engaging the Independent Sector – Progress Report 2012-2013

The ‘Reshaping Care for Older People: Engaging the Independent Sector’ project, initiated in April 2012, has been the catalyst for a significant shift by the sector in understanding and being involved in the RCOP agenda, and in engagement with the sector by local partnerships.

Despite a limited financial resource, the project has moved the sector from a position where there was limited capacity to engage at partnership level, to one where 23 out of 28 partnerships have a development officer representing the independent sector on relevant groups at partnership level.