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Reablement
A report has been published into a person centred approach to reablement and the implications for support planning. The report is called the 'New Reablement Journey' and there is also a Checklist available for download.
Skills for Care
Skills for Care is working with partners including local authorities to offer sessions to help providers develop a personalisation action plan. Not all local authority areas are covered. For more information go to the Skills for Care website
A Vision for Adult Social Care: Capable Communities and Active Citizens
The publication of A Vision for Adult Social Care was accompanied by a range of documents in support of some of the aims continued within the Vision. Some of them directly related to Personalisation and links to them can be found below.
- Enabling risk, ensuring safety: self-directed support and personal budgets - the report explores what research is beginning to say about overcoming some of the barriers to personalisation and how individuals and organisations are approaching the barriers in practice.
- Practical Approaches to safeguarding and personalisation - sets out how personalisation of support and more effective safeguarding can be mmutually suportive.
- Practical Approaches to improving the lives of disabled and older people through building stronger communities - this briefing puts the Building Community Capacity to Put People First project into the context of the personalisation agenda.
- Think Local, Act Personal: Next Steps for Transforming Adult Social Care - a proposed sector-wide commitment to moving forward with personalistion and community-based support. This paper outlines the proposed agreement which has been endorsed by a range of organisations and public bodeies across the adult social care sector.
‘Altogether NOW- Collectively figuring out how to develop alternatives to just paid support’
The content of this paper, aimed at sharing thinking and practical ideas, is the result of listening to and drawing out the ideas from people and organisations in the North West. The paper details some of their efforts to explore what has and may work, in terms of supporting people in the current economic climate. There is a focus on the idea of just enough support and working towards additional and alternative support through communiteis, families, technology and other solutions. Download 'Altogether NOW'
Putting People First Facts and Figures
NW Joint Improvement Partnership carried out a survey of all local authorities in the North West asking them to measure their progress in delivering Personalised Budgets and Direct Payments to users of community based services as at March 2010. The North West information is grouped by Older People, and Adult Service users aged 18-64 years. In addition local authorities were asked to look forward to September 2010 and March 2011 to predict the number of Personal Budgets they will be providing.
Regulatory and Legislative Barriers to Micro Enterprise
A summary of regulatory and legislative barriers to micro enterprises in delivering services to individuals has been produced by NAAPS. It contains examples of where small providers have been unable to become approved providers, curtail service provision, etc. Download summary. More information from Alex Fox: alex@naaps.org.uk. www.naaps.org.uk. .
Skills for Care and the NW Joint Improvement Partnership Workshops Report
Skills for Care and the NW Joint Improvement Partnership have produced a report summarising the outcomes of workshops that brought together commissioners and providers to explore the impact of personalisation on the social care workforce. The report explores the changing roles of staff within both local authority commissioning teams and provider organisations to meet the requirements of personalisation, and how commissioners and providers can work together to enable the change. "We're helping providers and commissioners to collaborate" : personalisation - the implications what do commissioners and providers need to do
Personalisation: Third Sector Are You Ready? Conference - 29th June 2010
Following the successful Personalisation conference the presentations from the key note speakers and workshop presenters along with website links to other resources mentioned during the day are available below:
Key Note Speakers
- Carey Bamber - Understanding the New Reality
- Ben Harrison - What United Response is doing to prepare for a Personalised Social Care Market
- Owen Cooper - 'Just Enough Support'
- Steve Scown - Making it Personal: A Providers Journey from Tradition to Transformation
Workshops
- Helen Allen - Local Agency Model for Providers
- Carey Bamber - Personalisation in Mental Health Settings
- Jeff Dunlop - Shop for Support
- Catherine Titherington - Marketing for Providers
Website Links and other Downloads
Progress for Providers: toolkit for checking your progress in delivering personalised services
Making It Personal: A Providers Journey from Tradition to Transformation: This is a downloadable pdf of Steve Scown and Helen Sanderson's book which was the basis for Steve Scown's presentation at the Conference.
Supporting Micromarket Development: a Guide for Local Authorities
Personalisation in Mental Health: a model for integration of mental health and social care
Paths to Personalisation in Mental Health: The guide provides information about what personalisation means for mental health services and supports, offers examples of what needs to be in place to make things work, and provides pointers to good practice and sources of advice and information.
Featured Event
Open Public Services - Passage of a bill workshop
This VSNW/Parliamentary Outreach Service event will explore the stages that the bill would go through, their relative importance and ways to engage and influence
Latest News
BBC Children in Need Grants
After a record-breaking fundraising campaign in 2011, BBC Children in Need is seeking to attract quality applications from groups who work to positively change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people throughout the North West
Two days left to enter our case study competition - prizes up for grabs!
We are inviting local groups and local or regional infrastructure organisations from across the North West to submit ideas for Listen Value Invest 2012 case studies about their work and how they are adjusting to the new environment
Commission on youth unemployment calls for emergency action
A new report published today by the ACEVO Commission on Youth Unemployment finds that youth unemployment has reached emergency point
Events & Trainings
VSNW’s list of events & training opportunities for VCS groups in the North West
