The rationale for establishing KICA is to ensure that independent providers have a necessary degree of influence and leverage with the local authority, CCG’s and Health and Wellbeing Boards, as well as retaining links with local voluntary agencies and national agencies and organisations. In order to be sustainable in the transformed social care market, in which public authorities will be commissioning services from prime contractors, SME’s will need to demonstrate that they are focused on and can achieve the outcomes that will be required and determined by commissioners, prime contractors, families and individual service users.
These outcome based services and products will need to be not only safe and compliant with regulations, but also financially viable, capable of attracting investment, responsive and adaptable to changing market conditions and customer needs, and personalised. In anticipation of this step change, the KCHA, KCCA and KMCA are combining to maximising their potential in a new organisation, the KICA, that can represent independent and voluntary service providers within this emergent and challenging operating environment.
