Executive Summary Introduction Consilium Research and Consultancy (Consilium) was commissioned in November 2012 by Skills for Care, in partnership with Skills for Care and Development and Creative & Cultural Skills, to inform future thinking around the role of arts in the delivery of social care and in particular the implications for workforce development. This narrative report provides a summary of the evidence collated and reviewed as part of the evidence review of studies on the role of arts in the delivery of adult social care. This review is focused on the use of arts in adult social care including activities delivered in a range of social care settings such as residential, day, domiciliary and community care. It also includes activities for adult recipients of care delivered in community settings. The key research questions were: What works? What do you need to make it work? How much does it cost? Policy Context In 2010 the Care Quality Commission commissioned the Social Care Institute for Excellence to define what an excellent adult social care service looks like. The report identified four essential elements of excellence, one of which was to provide a service which supports and enables people to engage in activities, pastimes and roles which bring them pleasure and meaning and enhance their quality of life. However, with pressure on funding available to arts organisations across England, there is a need to explore existing and potential models of using arts to deliver social care including the implications for workforce development. Methodology The approach to completing the evidence review has followed Skills for Care’s agreed approach (Appendix 1). Having formulated the review questions and developed a conceptual framework (Appendix 2), inclusion and exclusion criteria were agreed and the search strategy implemented. The evidence review was implemented between the 10th December 2012 and 1st February 2013. The evidence review identified 191 documents that met the search criteria. Each document was screened by a member of the research team and compared against agreed inclusion and exclusion criteria. The process of initially screening the studies reduced the number of documents to be synthesised to 91. The screening process identified a number of trends in the studies including those presenting evidence on the use of arts in delivering health
Executive Summary Introduction Consilium Research and Consultancy (Consilium) was commissioned in November 2012 by Skills for Care, in partnership with Skills for Care and Development and Creative & Cultural Skills, to inform future thinking around the role of arts in the delivery of social care and in particular the implications for workforce development. This narrative report provides a summary of the evidence collated and reviewed as part of the evidence review of studies on the role of arts in the delivery of adult social care. This review is focused on the use of arts in adult social care including activities delivered in a range of social care settings such as residential, day, domiciliary and community care. It also includes activities for adult recipients of care delivered in community settings. The key research questions were: What works? What do you need to make it work? How much does it cost? Policy Context In 2010 the Care Quality Commission commissioned the Social Care Institute for Excellence to define what an excellent adult social care service looks like. The report identified four essential elements of excellence, one of which was to provide a service which supports and enables people to engage in activities, pastimes and roles which bring them pleasure and meaning and enhance their quality of life. However, with pressure on funding available to arts organisations across England, there is a need to explore existing and potential models of using arts to deliver social care including the implications for workforce development. Methodology The approach to completing the evidence review has followed Skills for Care’s agreed approach (Appendix 1). Having formulated the review questions and developed a conceptual framework (Appendix 2), inclusion and exclusion criteria were agreed and the search strategy implemented. The evidence review was implemented between the 10th December 2012 and 1st February 2013. The evidence review identified 191 documents that met the search criteria. Each document was screened by a member of the research team and compared against agreed inclusion and exclusion criteria. The process of initially screening the studies reduced the number of documents to be synthesised to 91. The screening process identified a number of trends in the studies including those presenting evidence on the use of arts in delivering health
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