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ECA Member Briefings

ECA hosts regular briefing meetings for members free of charge. These are held at a number of different venues across the county and can be held as breakfast meetings or during the day. Topics are items of interest to members e.g. Safeguarding, CQC compliance, etc.

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“The breakfast briefing held in June 2011 about completing the CQC Provider Compliance Assessments was very helpful. It has given me the confidence to start work on this and keep in closer touch with my CQC inspector.”

Care Quality Commission Feedback

ECA meets regularly with the Care Quality Commission to represent social care providers across Essex, Southend and Thurrock. Feedback from these meetings is made available to ECA members through regular news feed items.

ECA Regular Newsletters

ECA members are kept updated on news and information relevant to the social care sector by regular ECA newsletters.

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News

• Live at Home Framework – Retender Concerns - Letter to ECC

  03 August 2020

  ECA Members have told us that they are concerned about the timing of the retender of the Live at Home Framework, which will take place at a time when the workforce is weary after the first wave of Covid and preparing for a second wave on top of any ‘Winter Pressures’. We have raised your concerns with ECC and here is the letter we sent to Moira McGrath, Director of Commissioning. We have also shared the letter with Cllr.John Spence,  Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care, and with Nick Presmeg, Director of Adult Social Care.

  Let us know if you agree with these concerns, and also if you have different views – we want to be able to represent you when we speak to ECC.

   

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• Webinar: Care Home Diabetes – A Continuing Health and Social Care Challenge

  28 July 2020

  6 August 2020, 4:45pm - 5:45pm

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• The Care Provider Alliance has produced a useful protocol for visitors to care homes

  20 July 2020

  which can be found here: https://careprovideralliance.org.uk/coronavirus-visitors-protocol

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