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Making Every Adult Matter
14 January 2009
Clinks, DrugScope, Homeless Link and Mind have announced a joint campaign, Making Every Adult Matter, to address the plight of some of the most socially excluded and vulnerable people in Britain.
Making Every Adult Matter is aimed at improving policy and service provision for adults with complex problems and multiple needs. The four charities, representing the criminal justice, substance misuse, homelessness and mental health sectors, recognise that their clients often cross over - and can fall between - their services.
In from the Margins: Making Every Adult Matter sets out the coalition's six priority areas, which are crucial to current government thinking and to service
development:
- Stigma and discrimination
- Recovery and social integration
- Personalisation and care planning
- Personal rights and responsibilities
- Service user involvement
- Families and communities
Overarching aim
The Coalition wishes to instigate a national programme of investment and reform to improve the well-being and life chances of excluded adults with multiple needs. This means support to:
- Escape poverty, marginalisation and social exclusion
- Achieve good physical and mental health
- Access education, training,work and other activity
- Participate in the rights, roles and responsibilities of society
- Enjoy positive and supportive relationships with other people.
Ten indicators
The coalition will measure progress towards ten project outcomes:
- A strong coalition with shared understanding, a clear vision and
strategy and effective joint working - A compelling narrative with the experience of service users at the
centre and robust evidence about needs, barriers and solutions - Understanding among key stakeholders and influencers on the
cost benefits for action and a strategy to realise them - Political commitment at leadership and cabinet level in
government and opposition - Implementation of a new programme of reform and investment
supported by a revised Public Service Agreement - Regional and local strategic bodies recognise the group,
promote systemic change and joint commissioning of services - Integration and partnerships between sectors to help transform
services - In every area effective services meet the needs of excluded
adults with multiple needs - A national evidence base that tracks outcomes for this group
- Significant reductions in homelessness, offending and substance
misuse alongside improvement in mental health and physical
health among this group.
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
Featured News
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
Transforming Local Infrastructure Fund results announced
The beneficiaries of the £30 million fund to help transform and modernise local charity support services have been announced by Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society.
Relaunch of Voluntary Sector Cuts Website
The Voluntary Sector Cuts website has now been relaunched with additional functionality to enable VCS organisations to records cuts to funding and their effects
Events & Trainings
VSNW’s list of events & training opportunities for VCS groups in the North West
