Launch Event: Social Care Finance in Focus: CIPFA Case Study Library

Event summary

This is the free launch event for a brand new CIPFA resource aimed at social care finance professionals. Social Care Finance in Focus: CIPFA Case Study Library is CIPFA’s new hub for case studies in adult and children’s social care finance. The launch will introduce the adult social care case studies and you will hear from local authorities whose success stories feature in the hub.

Date

07 July 2025
Starts: 12:00
Ends: 13:00

Location

online

Standard price

£0.00 excl VAT

Network Member Price

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About this event

CIPFA’s new social care finance resource brings together case studies from across the country on how councils are innovating to: achieve financial sustainability and value for money; improve ways of working in their organisations and with partners; support a skilled and resilient workforce; and to build confidence through governance and assurance.

This launch event will introduce the first phase of the resource, which comprises adult social care case studies. Some of the councils featured in the case studies will present their success stories.

Who should attend?

Everyone involved in social care finance.

How will you benefit from attending?

You will benefit in the following ways:

Learn about a brand new CIPFA resource
Learn from selected local authorities as they discuss their featured case studies
Learn the patterns of good practice identified by CIPFA
Learn from examples covering financial sustainability and value for money, reforming ways of working, supporting a skilled workforce, and building trust through governance and assurance.

CPD hours

This course carries one CPD hour.

Topics

Efficiency
/ Financial management
/ Financial reporting
/ Governance
/ Health and social care
/ Leadership
/ Local government
/ Performance improvement and policy
/ Professional development
/ Risk management
/ Value for money

Speaker - Dr William Burns, Social Care Policy Advisor

William is CIPFA’s social care policy voice, and he runs the Social Care Network. His work focuses on social care reform, and he has produced thought leadership in the areas of charging reform, children’s social care reform, Scotland’s National Care Service, and social care funding. Before joining CIPFA, he was Social Care Finance Lead at the Scottish Government where he was involved in costing a range of social care reform policies stemming from the Independent Review of Adult Social Care. William attained a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow and started studying accountancy during the final stages of his PhD.