If you work in private nursing, homecare or if you work as social workers for mental health support then you should know that the very first stage of updates has now been released. Those who offer bespoke care packages will be glad to know that the ASCOF is a set of indicators and they look at the outcomes as well as the performance of how well care support services are achieving their appropriate outcomes. On top of this, they publish the statistics annually, with the intention of them being used locally as well as nationally. They want to try and set prior annual indicators of the outcomes as well as the general performance.

The DHSC have said that they want ASCOF to try and demonstrate how social care is helping people to achieve the outcomes that actually matter to them as well as their individual needs. They have worked closely with the Task and Finish group and they also have a lot of sector representation. The want to try and maximise national levels when it comes to monitoring, and they also want to check to see if good outcomes are being achieved. At the end of the day, better outcomes are going to be available by trying to utilise upcoming changes and this is going to do a lot for strengthening existing data. Updates happen to include metrics that reflect people who work outside of those who have unpaid careers as well. This happens to include the whole care workforce, so it is important to keep this in mind as much as possible. At the end of the day, it is surprising to see how far things have come but right now it would seem that things are looking very positive.