Parity and LCS win place on Capital Ambition Framework for the Personalisation of Adult Social Care
~ partnering to help local councils transform their delivery of adult social care ~
December 2008
Parity, the IT and business solutions provider, has partnered with Lowe Consulting Services (LCS), the public sector-focused management consultancy, to help local councils transform their delivery of adult social care. Together, Parity and LCS have offered services to London boroughs, working with London Councils and the Joint Improvement Programme framework for the personalisation of adult care services.
Parity and LCS have invested in understanding the full requirements of the Government's 'Putting People First' agenda and how it impacts local councils. They can guide councils anywhere in England through the Government's mandates, supporting them in making the organisational and technical changes required when introducing personalisation for social care.
“Demographic changes and the need to create greater choice is a challenge for local government in reshaping services in England, transform delivery and focus on the needs of the individual,” explained Clive Grayson, Consulting Director at Parity. “Everyone will be able to choose the best care for their circumstances and requirements, and people can receive a budget to spend on the services they want and need. Change on this scale requires a fundamental restructure of business processes, policy and job roles.”
Mick Lowe, Managing Director at LCS, said: “Every council in England is required to transform their adult social care services in light of ‘Putting People First’. It is a massive and long term change and, as is so often the case, it is only once they start on the journey that stakeholders realise the extent of the transformation required. Our insight and experience can help make the journey smoother, enabling councils to deliver the best services to local people.”
About Parity
Parity is a business and IT solutions company. With over 40 years' industry experience, it delivers a range of recruitment, learning and business and IT solutions that contribute to the growth and organisational performance of private and public sector clients.
Parity has deep industry knowledge and expertise across a variety of sectors including commercial, central and local government, defence and commercial. It delivers people, skills and concepts for IT projects and programmes and has provided these services to a range of blue-chip clients, including BT, Ofgem, HBOS, The Cabinet Office, BAT and The Charity Commission.
The company operates as three divisions, Solutions, Resources and Training, all of which use people to solve business and IT issues. Parity designed and runs the largest graduate recruitment programme in the UK for The Cabinet Office, is responsible for creating the UK’s award winning eGovernment portal, eFire, ranks as the top supplier of IT and Programme and Project Management specialist contractors to the public sector through the Catalist framework and throughout its history, has delivered training to over 1 million people - more people than any other UK IT training provider
Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Parity recorded a turnover of over £150m in 2007.
http://www.parity.net/
About LCS
LCS is a small specialist consultancy practice embedded in change and performance management in the public sector with the majority of its experience in local government. It was founded in 1998 and most of its consultants have many years experience working for local councils across the UK and in social care in particular.
It has an extensive client list which includes more than 50 local councils in the UK plus some international clients.
For further information, please contact:
Suzy Ferguson at LEWIS
suzyf@lewispr.com
+44 (0) 207 802 2626
Web: http://www.lewispr.com/
Caroline Overholt at Parity
c.overholt@parity.net
+44 (0) 845 873 6942