An ASC Neighbourhoods Service Quality Assurance Virtual Panel will commence from the week beginning 20 January 2025 and the process to be reviewed and evaluated by July 2025.

Role of Quality Assurance Panel

The Quality Assurance and Funding Panel will be grounded in the principles of Strengths-Based Practice, aimed at empowering individuals and promoting their wellbeing. By centralising decision-making and oversight.

The aims of the panel are to:

• Ensure that individuals are empowered to actively participate in decisions regarding their care and support needs.
• Ensure that there is a focus on identification and use of individuals' strengths and resources to achieve positive outcomes. This may include considering the individual own strengths abilities as well as wider network such as family friends, voluntary sector and universal services.
• Ensure that there is evidence of maximising individuals’ abilities such as Rehab/Reablement/equipment/Assistive tech.
• Create consistency and uniformity in decision making as well as foster best practice, by providing a forum for collaboration and knowledge among panel members and practitioners.
• Ensure that resources are allocated effectively and fairly and that expense is proportionate to assessed need and identified outcomes.