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- Making it Real: Marking Progress with Personalisation and Community-based Support - OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
Posted on: 17/05/2012New help available for social care sector to improve support for older and disabled people SOCIAL CARE ORGANISATIONS are being asked to go online today to publicly declare their commitment to changing the way older and disabled adults experience care and support. - Making it Real launched today
Posted on: 17/05/2012Making it Real: Marking Progress with Personalisation and Community-based Support is today being launched at the Community Care 2012 conference. The campaign encourages organisations that pay for, or provide, social care services to get real about improving people's lives. We are asking social care organisations to go online to publicly declare their commitment to changing the way older and disabled adults experience care and support. - Making It Real - best practice in community care
Posted on: 16/05/2012A recent report released by Think Local, Act Personal (TLAP) details the new parameters suggested for best practice in community care. The new framework, called Making It Real, is designed to assist organisations in making their services appropriately personalised and citizen-led. - Queen's speech 2012: Draft bill on social care announced
Posted on: 10/05/2012A draft bill on overhauling care and support for elderly and disabled people in England has been announced in the Queen's Speech. - Paralympian support for the launch of Making it Real
Posted on: 04/05/2012You are invited to join us for the "live" launch of Making it Real: a citizen-led approach to marking progress with personalisation and community-based support. The launch is taking place at the Community Care Live Conference on Thursday 17th May 2012, we are delighted that Paralympic gold medallist and world record holder Danny Crates will be joining us. - Ten Ways to Stop Bashing - and Start Boosting - Micro-Enterprise
Posted on: 03/05/2012Using real life, anonymous, examples from Shared Lives Plus members, and enterprises supported by Community Catalysts, a new report explores Ten Ways to Stop Bashing - and Start Boosting - Micro-Enterprise the unfortunate blunders some authorities have made and the steps they could take to facilitate more micro-enterprises offering support solutions for older and disabled people. - Invitation to participate in an exciting new health and social care leadership programme
Posted on: 02/05/2012This national programme, initiated by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), will bring together senior leaders from across the country to explore how senior leaders can grow and nurture local social capital in order to build stronger communities and improve health and wellbeing. - Care and co-production in a crisis - VODG blog
Posted on: 01/05/2012Blog from the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) Jessica Agudelo, Certitude community projects co-ordinator. - Costs of self-directed support in Scotland
Posted on: 01/05/2012A study examining the actual and potential costs, benefits, and impacts of an increase in self-directed support (SDS) in Scotland. - Health and social care leaders come together to drive improvements in dementia services
Posted on: 01/05/2012The Champion Group aims to deliver on key ambitions set out in the Prime Minister's dementia challenge, it brings together representatives from the health sector, social care, local government and charities. They will be tasked with driving work on the ground to ensure that health and social care services get to grips with improving services for both people with dementia and their carers.