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- Sibling carers of children and young people with a terminal or life
The siblings of children and young people with a life threatening or terminal illness often find themselves in the role of a carer to their ill brother or sister. This can be on an informal basis (for example being with the sibling whilst parents go out to the shops) or require more intense support (for example giving medicine, helping with moving needs etc). - Reaching out to Carers Innovation fund reports: Transition Affects Carers Too
Organisation: Thurrock Lifestyle Solutions CICCarers of young people with learning disabilities are faced with difficult decisions when their child leaves full time education. Their assumptions and expectations may disable the whole family if the young person is never to be seen as an adult because of their condition. - Dementia: Increasing awareness and uptake of Direct Payments and Personal Budgets
Final evaluation and lessons learned report from an East of England JIP project on Dementia and Personal Budgets. Following on from the National Dementia Strategy, the project aims to support the increasing number of people with dementia who receive a personal budget or direct payment, and increase awareness and develop progress with this through various strategies. - Essex 3-year study on personal budgets
The Office for Public Management (OPM) and Essex Coalition of Disabled People (ECDP) have been commissioned by Essex County Council to carry out a 3-year study on the impact of personal budgets on 46 disabled and older people in Essex. The study provides in-depth insights from service users and their families over a 3-year period. - East of England JIP Members Directory
Brophy, Gerald (Focus Training Anglia Ltd) Corrigan, Nick (Southend Local Authority) Cowley, Jo (Suffolk County Council) Cuthbertson, Morag (Southend Local Authority) Davey, Nicole (West Herts Wheelchair Service) DESMULIE, Dianne (DH Social Care & Partnerships team East of England) Dorr, Helen (independent researcher) Douglas, Shaun (care uk) Edwards, Tony (Improvement East) France, Miles (NWMHFT / NCC) Gault, Hugh (Independent) Gronqvist, Katherine (South West Essex PCT) Hutchinson, Jan (South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) Jordan, Jocelyn (Brentwood Borough Council) Knighton, Ian (New World Consultancy Ltd) Knighton, Stephen (Russell Associates) Lane, Dr Pauline (DH Social Care Team) Leigh, Helen (Anglia Support Partnership) Lightfoot, Tina (Joint Improvement Partnership) Rowland, Chris (CSIP) Tarpey, Lynda (Hasca Ltd) Thacker, Helen (Norfolk County Council) Turner, Zillah (Great Yarmouth & Waveney PCT) Westley, Tracey (Hertfordshire PCTs) Winwood, Rebecca (Bedfordshire County Council). - East Regional JIP Key Priorities for 2009/2010
The following priorities have been set for this year:Transforming Adult Social Care - TASC (Personalisation) Long Term Conditions Dementia Organisational Performance, CAA LSPs, LAAs & social exclusion Efficiency Commissioning LD services Capacity & skills including leadership Safeguarding Key Contacts: Deputy Regional Director:Amanda ReynoldsAmanda. Reynolds@dh. - Personal experiences of transformation: East of England
Darren, the manager of a residential home, talks about how communication at the residence was personalised through teaching new communication techniques to staff. Darren's story: The Home Manager My name is Darren and I am a manager of a residential home for adults with a learning disability. - Personal experiences of transformation: East of England
Raymond, his Care Co-ordinator and one of his Care providers talk about how Raymond is using his Personal Budget to improve his mobility and provide respite for his main carer. Raymond's story I have severe arthritis and a range of other health problems and as a result have very poor mobility. - After the Downturn: Managing a significant and sustained adjustment in public sector funding
This discussion paper (and subsequent update) explores the impact of public sector funding cuts on public services, and the strategies and actions that Government and public bodies might adopt to manage them. - Changing lives together: using person-centred outcomes to measure results in social care
This paper looks at how councils can work together with citizens to develop new ways to measure success in social services at a local level. It shares the learning from several initiatives that aim to find out if people achieve outcomes that are important to them.