Adult Social Care Assessments Improvement Toolkit (ASCAIT)

Do you need help improving your adult social care assessments but not sure where to start?

Use this toolkit which includes tools designed to cater to your local authority’s needs and support you to navigate and address the challenges that you may face across the assessments process.

Not sure where to start?

Use this self-diagnostic toolkit (members only) which helps you self-assess where you are as a local authority and presents you with tools that will be most helpful to improve your adult social care assessments.

Review the toolcards

See all the tool cards (members only) included within the toolkit which can support you to improve your adult social care assessments.

Why will this toolkit help you?

• It represents a community of practice (members only) reflecting on efforts by other local authorities and sector partners to improve adult social care assessments.
• Each tool in this toolkit ensures benefits for local authorities, practitioners, people who draw on care and support, and carers.
• It can help local authorities who are unsure of where to start through the self-diagnostic questionnaire and outline their specific areas of improvement.
• It sets out key principles that can help guide you when trying to improve the way you do your adult social care assessments to understand what good looks like.

Non-members should log in and use the request to join button on the right to access the above resources.