About CSIP
The new arrangements mean that the Care Services Improvement Partnership has become a partnership of four national improvement programmes, delivered regionally through eight Regional Development Centres.
Our main objectives are to:
- develop capacity and capability;
- support policy implementation; and
- support the development of policy.
We achieve this in four ways:
Regionally led - Eight Regional Development Centres ensure a strong emphasis on regional priorities. National coordination is supported by a small central team - the national support office - which enables the SHAs and DH to work together on common priorities for supporting delivery.
Four Programmes - The RDCs activity is focused and consolidated into four core programmes - social care, NIMHE (mental health), children and young people, and health and social care criminal justice. Social care programmes include work on older people, learning disabilities and the CSIP networks.
Commitment to integration and partnerships - The RDCs continue to model and promote an integrated way of working across health, social care and the wider public sector; an approach that is focused on, and responsive to, the practical and organisational challenges of driving whole system change.
Local focus - This includes developing effective relationships with the regional joint improvement partnerships (JIPS) and the Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs). Once in post, RDCs will support the Deputy Director for Social Care and Care Partnerships in each region on the policy implementation of Transforming Social Care
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Changing The Care Services Improvement Partnership
A summary of the changes agreed to the nationally coordinated programmes
and Regional Development Centres.
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