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The Support Net Project is exploring how self directed support can develop when a local community starts to imagine a different type of care and support. The project is currently working in 2 areas of Nottingham City - Beechdale and Bilborough.

View the presentations from the Community Capacity Event held on 3 September 2010 here.

Lancashire's multi agency strategy was launched in 2009. It aims to raise awareness of carers and their needs amongst existing community based groups and help to identify 'hidden carers'.

In Blackburn with Darwin the senior carers strategy manager worked to make links between the carers strategy, Local Strategic Partnerships and Local Area Agreements and to encourage others to 'think carer' when planning. Specific suggestions were made about how draft neighbourhood plans could better support carers whilst reaching their objectives.

This project is exploring how the Local Area Coordination approach can support the development of Personalisation and self directed support. Local Area Coordination (LAC), developed in Australia in 1988, offers a way to build individual, family and community self sufficiency so that disabled and older people can choose to live with their families, or in their local community without compromising their quality of life.

The North East Autism consortium (NEAC) will drive forward the modern commissioning of care and support services for people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Asperger syndrome. This will be achieved in two ways:Via the delivery of the actions plans of the 4 sub regional Autism Service Development Groups (ASDG) developed from stakeholder events in 2008, which will lead to the creation of modern, cost effective and individualised services for people living in our region.

An in-depth analysis of the benefits of the SP programme to highlight learning for Personalisation in the North East. This project will undertake an in-depth regional analysis of the benefits of the Supporting People Programme to highlight where efficiencies and good commissioning practise could affect the costs of procurement of Social Care Services for Independent Living, in advance of the mainstreaming of the supporting people programme by March 2011.

A comprehensive project to support development of the market place in the North East, this project involved a Festival of Ideas and a Provider Innovation Fund. This project will work with established service providers, including in-house, local authority services, to assist them to deliver personalisation as a first step towards self directed support.

How do the North East regional JIP/NEIEP projects contribute to the PPF agenda?We have mapped projects against the PPF milestones to show how they are helping the transformation of adult social care across the region. The document attached below shows how each milestone is supported by a number of projects and provides hyperlinks to further information.